Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 April 2021

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is up to me and the Government to make the case for that. The truth is it will not be automatically given to us. This is the most intensely competitive area of negotiation one can imagine, and other countries will not wish to afford undue recognition to small and medium sized economies as they make the case for the kind of change they want to see happen. That is their prerogative and I respect that. It is up to us to make the case for tax competition within certain parameters being a legitimate policy response to the disadvantages of size or location. In short, it will be up to us to do that and up to me to make the case for it. I do not expect it to be automatically recognised by other countries. They will make the case for their national priorities and it will lie with us to do the same for ours.

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