Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts

9:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

That is part of it. Across all companies, there were 1,785,898 employments. In the context of foreign-owned multinationals, the figure was 443,776. We published this information in April. It is in the material that we sent as part of the committee's briefing. Irish-owned multinationals accounted for 68,763 employments and non-multinationals for 1,273,359. The foreign-owned multinationals' employment income equated to €15.8 billion in wages paid by multinationals to their employees and, in that particular year, they accounted for €6.4 billion in PAYE and PRSI payments.