Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will use my role as the Minister for Finance for Ireland to pursue what I believe are longstanding clear matters for our national interest. That is what I have done in recent years and it is what I will continue to do. I will respond at another point to the ruling concerning anti-money laundering, but in the brief answers I have given to the Deputy, I have pointed to that vast amount of change that has happened in our corporate tax code to deal with aggressive tax planning and practices that I know need to change.

This has happened in Ireland and it has been led by this and the previous Government. We have made significant changes in our corporate tax policy to ensure that issues that were of concern to many have been dealt with while, at the same time, protecting the concept that taxation can be part of the competitive model of a small open economy. That is work that I have done and it is work that I plan to continue.

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