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

In the interests of not keeping us here all night I will take the Minister's response and consider it so I will not press this for now. Some mechanism must be found to force these companies to cough up the information. If there is a real problem in us not getting the information as the Minister suggests - I will think about what he has said - it is a reasonable point. We need to take a lead and not just be dragged, as we have to date, on these matters. We must insist that it does happen and the European Union proposal that is being discussed has power so these companies are forced to provide the information. I do not see why we cannot do it unilaterally, albeit not via the Revenue Commissioners as suggested in the amendment. We could put a compulsion on those companies to provide those country-by-country reports.

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