Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners
9:30 am
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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With regard to the Commissioner's comments about her staff investigating approximately 1,000 tax rulings being offered by European governments to companies and which investigations concern the amounts of tax they owed. The Commissioner also confirmed that there are no further open investigations into tax arrangements in Ireland or elsewhere. Does this prove that the investigation into Apple's operation in Ireland was not an attempt to get at Ireland's corporation tax through the backdoor and that it just happened to involve one of the world's biggest companies? Does the Minister accept her verdict in that?