Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition

12:30 pm

Ms Margrethe Vestager:

We did not investigate them. We did not open proceedings and lay out our concerns. If we open proceedings, we first make a written statement in which we outline our concerns. We did not do this in the case of the other 19 companies. In order to understand what was going on and be sufficiently thoroug, wehe asked them questions such as, "How does this work for you?" We have not opened investigations into them.