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

2:45 pm

Mr. Gary Tobin:

Yes. From our perspective we just wanted to understand exactly what was going on. There had been a number of hearings by the Senate sub-committee over several months involving a variety of other companies and nothing like this issue had ever come up before. We just wanted to understand what was happening.