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:

That is a completely separate situation to the issue we are discussing today. The Secretary General comes before the finance committee regularly and I am sure he will be happy to explain it. My understanding, and I am open to correction, is that he was simply in Cork on a particular day and, as he is wont to do, arranged to meet various business leaders, one of whom was the managing director of this particular company. That is completely separate from what we are discussing today. It was do with the use of ICT and so on.