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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)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Commissioner believe that representatives of the State sat down with representatives of Apple and arrived at a figure for the amount of tax Apple which would pay and which was not based on any normal rules? Did her investigation - at any point - note any political influences in such arrangements?

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)

Rose Conway Walsh: How many rulings on state aid and tax has the Commission made apart from this one?

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)

Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Santander ruling make Ms Vestager more confident that the ECJ will come down on the side of the Apple ruling? I want to ask the Commissioner a minor question about regional state aid when she has answered the question on the Santander ruling.

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)

Rose Conway Walsh: When does the Commissioner expect the ruling to be finalised on this?

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)

Rose Conway Walsh: On the matter of regional state aid, and continuing from what my colleague Senator Paddy Burke said, is there any impediment to any country using fiscal policy to address deficits in regional areas? Can a separate taxation be used for a region to address a regional imbalance through state aid?

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)

Rose Conway Walsh: Okay. That is a conversation for another day.

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)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will write to the Commissioner separately on it because I appreciate that her time is limited today.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yesterday, at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, the European Commissioner, Ms Vestager, engaged in possibly the most damning criticism of the attitude of the Government to the Apple tax ruling. This is an issue of national importance, yet, as reported in one European newspaper this morning, most of the questions asked yesterday were aimed at...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I made it absolutely clear.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That does not make it right.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Go on, give me the economics lesson. I missed it over Christmas.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That is because of JobPath and every other scheme.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What is his job?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We will not hold our breath.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for attending. I understand the constraints he is under in the context of discussing this matter. I have a couple of broad points to make. Among the reasons given for taking the appeal against the Apple tax ruling and for the refusal to collect the money was that it may not all belong to Ireland. In light of Commissioner Vestager's comment that the vast majority of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Minister disputing what the Commissioner has explicitly stated to the committee at its meeting earlier this week, namely, that the large majority of the money is, in her opinion, owed to Ireland? Is there a basis for the Minister disputing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Can we take it off the table now if the Minister is not refuting what the Commissioner is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Okay, so it may need to be left there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: With regard to the Commissioner's comments about her staff investigating approximately 1,000 tax rulings being offered by European governments to companies and which investigations concern the amounts of tax they owed. The Commissioner also confirmed that there are no further open investigations into tax arrangements in Ireland or elsewhere. Does this prove that the investigation into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I need to ask the Minister a couple of other questions. Will he tell us how much has been spent on the appeal to date and how much the Department has set aside for spending on this appeal?