Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
2:00 pm
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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I thank the witnesses for their presentations. One might get the impression that it is the second C of the abbreviation, consolidation, that will cause the greatest issues in Ireland's case. However, what is being proposed under the first C of the common base is as alarming from the point of view of sovereignty. Could Mr. Hession explain what a common income tax base would look like? Would it involve a common set of tax credits and tax reliefs?