Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

There are bodies to investigate tax scams. If the Deputy asserts that the law as it stands is wrong, it is obvious that he disagrees with it. I remind Deputy Higgins, who obviously has forgotten what he said on two occasions, of the following. Ireland has lower taxes — although they are no longer the lowest because countries such as Estonia and other new member states have extremely low corporation taxes — which are very straight line and we do not make deals with companies as do other countries. We are taking in hundreds of millions more and the very projects advocated by the Deputy are funded in this manner.

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