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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 253. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will outline their needs in respect of their budgetary requirements. [5054/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services Provision (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if all pregnant women here have access to a foetal anomaly scan; and the number of foetal anomaly scans relative to actual births for every individual maternity unit in the State for the years 2015 and 2016, in tabular form [5055/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 326. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the multiple submissions made by an association (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5056/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Road Network (2 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 327. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money allocated to the rehabilitation of Curraheen Bridge as part of the 2017 investment programme. [5057/17]

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)

Seán Sherlock: At the joint committee meeting she attended recently, the Commissioner stated:I can say how it looks from my side. We did not investigate how Apple organised its operations. We did not investigate the cost-sharing agreements. We did not investigate the fact that Apple records its profits in Cork, Ireland. We were looking at whether the allocation of profits was recorded in the branch and...

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)

Seán Sherlock: The Commissioner went on to say, "We do not investigate or value the intellectual property." If I interpret it correctly, in dealing with activity levels in Ireland, they are actually putting a value on the intellectual property, or they are at least stating it to be economic activity. Am I wrong in this contention?

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)

Seán Sherlock: The kernel of the case will be in tax sovereignty for the Irish people.

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)

Seán Sherlock: The base erosion and profit shifting, BEPS, process speaks to 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)

Seán Sherlock: I also welcome the Revenue Commissioners. I am trying to distil this. In respect of the theme around the methodologies, the Commission has stated that the decision of 30 August asserts that the two opinions given in 1991 and 2007 by Revenue renounced tax revenue that Ireland would otherwise have been entitled to collect from the Irish branches of Apple Sales International, ASI, and Apple...

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)

Seán Sherlock: Correct me if my mathematics are wrong, if the tax liability is €13 billion and for the sake of argument, the tax rate is 10%, the economic activity is €130 billion, if I am correct. What the Commission is saying is that in this instance, there was €130 billion worth of economic activity conducted on the island of Ireland through two entities. Is that correct based on...

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)

Seán Sherlock: That is what it 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)

Seán Sherlock: I return to the Commissioner's comments when she appeared before the committee the other day. She said:We were looking at whether the allocation of profits was recorded in the branch and whether, therefore, it had to be taxed in Ireland, or recorded in the stateless headquarters and, therefore, not to be taxed in Ireland. We found that the recordings by Apple, which we did not question,...

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)

Seán Sherlock: Did the two opinions of 1991 and 2007 speak to the issue of intellectual property? If I understood Mr. Cody's interaction with Deputy Michael McGrath correctly, the Revenue Commissioners would have kicked the tyres on the two opinions given. Did Revenue look at the issue of intellectual property in 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)

Seán Sherlock: I have two very simple technical questions. What is the arm's-length principle? Why has the Commission applied it incorrectly, in Mr. Cody's view?

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeframe and detailed plans for the way in which he will revise the current universal service obligation for telephony services from basic copper telephony to ensure high-speed broadband connectivity is available as an enforceable right to every person and his or her premises throughout the country; and if he will...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I wish the Minister well. It is good to see him back on his feet and at his desk. My question relates to the universal service obligation. Does the Minister have a timeframe and what are his detailed plans for revising the current universal service obligation for telephony services from basic copper telephony to ensure high-speed broadband connectivity and to ensure it is available as an...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: Is the Minister saying that the Government's position is that it is without ambiguity seeking a USO for all premises and citizens? How many people in the Minister's Department are working on the national broadband plan? The Minister speaks of people being left behind, and across the political landscape we all acknowledge those people, but when will nobody be left behind? What is the...

Priority Questions: National Broadband Plan (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: I would be very grateful if the Minister could revert to me with an indicative timeframe. It is also important that we know exactly how many staff are working on this important infrastructural project in the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. Is the Minister planning for a scenario in which litigation is taken by one or more of the potential bidders for the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Ministerial Meetings (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 42. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the engagement he has had with the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund in relation to fossil fuel investment; the engagement that he may have had with renewable energy companies through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund; his views on whether any engagement might differ with the principles set out in COP 21; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Metropolitan Area Networks Programme (7 Feb 2017)

Seán Sherlock: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when he will publish the report of the recent audit of the metropolitan area networks. [5737/17]