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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Would there be flexibility in regard to the corporation tax rate for the larger companies with turnovers of more than €750 million? Would there be flexibility for Ireland to increase its corporation tax rate for those companies following Brexit, if required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Let us ignore Brexit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Would it be for those companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Is Mr. Moscovici aware of the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I understand that. I am trying to establish the views of Mr. Moscovici on the proposal. I am sure the proposal can be altered with negotiation but I would like to hear Mr. Moscovici's views on it. Will there any leeway during negotiations for changes in the corporate tax rate for the companies generating a turnover of more than €750 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Is the CCCTB not an attack on Ireland's sovereignty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: If there is an agreed single fixed corporate tax rate following the negotiations, Ireland would not have the opportunity to raise its corporate tax rate for larger companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Even if the rate is fixed and agreed initially.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: The CCCTB proposal runs to approximately 40 pages. How does Mr. Moscovici propose to tie in the corporate tax details of the 27 member states in a document that currently comprises 40 pages? Every country has thousands of pages of tax law which are all interpreted in their own manner. I do not see how a document of 40 pages can cover such a crucial decision under which each country is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Corporate Taxation and Investment and Growth Strategies: Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs (24 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: In this case-----

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Districts (26 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: A decision was made in 2012 by the then Garda Commissioner with the consent of the Minister for Justice and Equality. At the time, I described it as the worst decision made in policing in County Wexford since independence. I will provide the Minister of State with some background. The current Garda district of Gorey and Enniscorthy is now the Enniscorthy Garda district. I held a...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Districts (26 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: There was not much in that reply about Garda district amalgamations. That was what my question was about. That is an ongoing criticism I make about the quality of answers. More than half the population of the county is in one district. Wexford is a big county. I will provide some statistics. There has been a 100% increase in drugs detected in the three years since the districts were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the application for the new purpose built school at Drumgood, Enniscorthy, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4046/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable housing estates that were funded by his Department in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3840/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 287. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable houses that were sold nationwide in each of the years 2014 to 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3841/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: 618. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Wexford will receive the remainder of their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3744/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: I welcome the Commissioner. In a CNBC interview, she stated:We never questioned how Apple is organized. We do not question Irish tax code, that is for the Irish. Subsequently, on 30 August, Mr. Tim Cook of Apple wrote that, over the years, Apple "received guidance from Irish tax authorities on how to comply correctly with Irish tax law — the same kind of guidance available to any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Not the Irish Government but the Revenue Commissioners. We are specifically talking about the Commissioner's investigation, which was not about the Irish Government, but the opinion from the Revenue Commissioners. Was the same opinion offered to other companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: The Commissioner is of the opinion that the majority of the €13 billion figure should be available to the Republic of Ireland. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Michael D'Arcy: Okay. If Apple, in good faith, took the opinion of the Revenue Commissioners to be correct, and subsequently the Commission retrospectively applied the state aid rules, could Apple take a case against the Irish Government for those moneys, including tax unpaid, and potentially another case for reputational damage to the Apple brand?