Charlie McCreevy (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)

Tax evasion is, and always has been, an activity in which people should not engage. I have done more than any other Minister for Finance to give powers to the Revenue Commissioners to pursue tax evasion. If the Deputy checks the legislation over the past 60 years, she will discover that more power has been given to the Revenue Commissioners by me to investigate tax evasion than any previous Minister or a combination of five Ministers for Finance. I utterly condemn tax evasion and have taken practical steps to eliminate it as far as possible.

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