Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Gerald NashGerald Nash (Louth, Labour)

We were told repeatedly two, three or four years ago by economists in the Department of Finance that by this point in time, we would probably be €2 billion worse off in terms of corporation tax receipts, even though people like me were reminding them at the time that pillar 2 of the base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process was likely to beneficial, at least in the short term, for the Irish Exchequer. What is Dr. Kelly's sense of that?

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