Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report on the Revised Macroeconomic Indicators: Discussion

4:00 pm

Professor Philip Lane:

Let me emphasise the figures are not unreliable. They are reliable. There are multiple forces driving the corporate tax revenue but, as Mr. Dalton said, the fact these balance sheets were relocated to Ireland may well have a pay-off in terms of higher corporate tax - there is no doubt about that. These are perfectly reliable numbers-----