Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation

Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: Discussion with Department of Finance and Revenue

2:15 pm

Mr. Eamonn O'Dea:

Please accept my apologies Deputy McGrath. We have taken legal advice which states that the European Commission has full authority under the European treaties to request such information as it considers necessary to make these preliminary inquiries.