Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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I will not respond to all the points the witnesses have made. I would have some differences of opinion on several but I want to state clearly we are not a tax haven, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD, and every other examination. We have a very transparent standard.

If we had more time we could have a longer argument about the effective rate of tax in respect of the 12.5% versus the number of companies who pay it and the witnesses' comments. I am very conscious that it is almost 7 p.m. It has been a very long day and I appreciate the witnesses spent much of it observing the first session. I thank them for coming in to the committee. We appreciate the input in both of today’s submissions and those in our earlier session. I thank the members who are here and particularly the witnesses for giving us their views.