Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's statement on the need to ensure the vigorous pursuit of policies that are helpful to Ireland in the international arena. If we do not do it, nobody else will do it for us. The use of the OECD as a means of achieving that objective is to be welcomed. Is it expected that Ireland's peripheral geographic position in the European Union will be taken into account in a meaningful way in whatever restructuring of taxation policies takes place? Will sufficient provision be made to ensure that this country has an even chance of surviving in the competitive world of taxation and high finance?