Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----from our educational system. That is paying serious dividends.

I would say to Deputy Boyd Barrett, obviously we have got rid of the double Irish concept because of reputational damage. Ireland plays its full part in the OECD analysis of the base erosion and profit sharing. We got rid of that because there are no brass plate companies here where we just have a plate but nobody employed. Apple, for instance, employs 4,000 people in Deputy Martin's city. There are so many others. Real workers go to work every day. They contribute to the research, innovation and the future. They are changing the frontiers up ahead.

In that sense, the Department of Finance, at the direction of the Minister, has now concluded its public consultation about putting in place an intellectual property knowledge box, which will be competitive and which will be fair, but which will play to win. We have made that point on so many occasions. We are very much up front about our tax situation. We will play hard and we will play to win in a fair sense.

Deputy Adams mentioned all these so-called superior people that he met. This is about talking to companies about investing in our country, where they have the opportunity to invest, create jobs and grow our economy and provide people with opportunities so that one can then deal with the more vulnerable sections of our society.

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