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
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Did Apple Inc. have the intellectual property rights for the sales of Apple products in Europe, Africa and Asia? Mr. Cody referred to them and kept saying, as the Minister has said, that we know Apple Inc. was managed in and controlled from the United States and that that is where the intellectual property was developed. However, it is irrelevant whether it was developed there. The issue is who had the intellectual property rights for the sales in Europe, Africa and Asia.