Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised)

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I will have to double-check that. Those schemes, as the Deputy will be aware, are run by Revenue and they are Department of Finance schemes rather than ones under my remit. I am across them, however, and certainly in terms of what I think would be right and just, we should not give taxpayers' money to companies that do not pay their taxes or that breach employment law. Why would we reward a company that-----