Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Apple tax scandal brings the dreadful decisions taken by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on behalf of the people into plain sight. First, to facilitate one company making a profit of €104 billion without paying any corporation tax is reckless on a global scale. What kind of a show was Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael running that allowed stateless companies with no tax residence anywhere in the world? What kind of a country was being run? I cannot imagine what it would be like if it were not for Deputy Pearse Doherty who pulled back, closed some of the loopholes and forced the Government to do that. All we have to do is look at 2015 and the scale of the corporation tax that was paid then. If the Government looks at the pattern, it can plainly see for itself. Then it spends €10 million of taxpayers' money fighting to prevent citizens getting €13 billion. Austerity was rained down on the people in this country. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Mayo TDs came into this Chamber - and this is awful hard for us to believe in County Mayo - and voted to return €13 billion to a company like Apple; a company that had got that money illegally. I thank God that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil did not win. Please God, they will not get to decide how to spend that money, which they spent so much taxpayers' money on trying not to take in the first place.

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