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

Mr. Mark Redmond:

As I said at the outset, we must remember when we use phrases like the "wild west" that we are talking about the reputations of 150,000 talented people in this country who work for US companies. The Deputy referred to a phone call between two leaders of a medical technology company. The recipient of the call is the leader of a team that is part of a group of people in this country who create four out every five medical stents, thereby saving lives throughout the world. These 150,000 bright people, who are passionate about innovation, would not do what they do to save and enhance lives if they were working in the wild west. We should be proud of them and proud of the contribution they are making to Ireland's reputation on the world stage.