Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2014

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

Ireland's Corporate Tax System: (Resumed) KPMG and Unite

3:10 pm

Mr. Conor O'Brien:

It is unfortunate that some of the reputational damage has been self-inflicted. We shot ourselves in the foot. A great deal of the international press coverage arose as a result of international news agencies picking up reports or articles published by Irish persons or Irish newspapers. These reports and articles did not make a distinction, for example, between place of residence, place of incorporation and so on. That was unfortunate.