Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is important not to have a false argument. Although there are brass plate operations, I did not hear anybody make a blanket assertion that all of the large foreign direct investment corporates are simply brass plate operations. I hear an increasingly unanswerable case for fair taxation, for large corporate entities to pay their fair share, but that does not represent an attack on large employers. I would have thought it was simply a fairly basic statement in an open democratic society. Just as citizens comply with the law, play their part and pay their taxes, corporate citizens should do likewise. The Deputy should not get excited or go off on a false tangent.

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