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

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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It is a huge issue because if any company comes to Ireland and requests an advance opinion from the Revenue Commissioners, we are now in a situation where investors cannot rely upon that advance opinion by the Revenue Commissioners, which is the impartial competent authority in Ireland. It is a very serious situation that the Commission is interfering in this regard.