Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Last week, while low and middle income families were preparing to get out on the streets to protest against the unjust water charges, it was reported that the Department of Finance was working with multinational companies to discuss the patent box proposal. Is it true that it was clearly indicated that the Department was reassuring multinational companies that no further tax burden would be imposed on them as a result of the changes to the double Irish scheme and the new patent box proposal? Is it fair that such companies are being reassured that they will have to pay no more tax, while ordinary people are being crushed?

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