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:
It is always difficult to redo the past and to do counter-factuals. This was opened before I ever became a Commissioner by my predecessor, Commissioner Almunia.
What I was told by the people who were present was that it was the questions and answers of the US Senate hearing that gave rise to questions being asked here and to the case being opened.