Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

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

EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed)

4:00 pm

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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If the developing countries had been involved in the process from the outset, how would the substance of what has been agreed be different? I understand Mr. Clarken's point, in that those countries are being asked to join something in which they did not have a role in designing. That is fair enough, but if they had been, what would be wrong with the BEPS project and its objectives and action points?