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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it extraordinary that there has been an attempt to block a simple request to bring before the joint committee representatives of a number of multinational companies, including Google, Facebook and Apple, which have been accused in a number of quarters internationally of engaging in aggressive tax avoidance, in order that members will be able to ask them questions on the matter. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will repeat what I said. I used the words "it remains to be seen".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a presumption.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not accuse anybody of dishonesty. I stated it remains to be seen whether they would be dishonest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It remains to be seen whether the multinational companies would give us the inside track on their tax avoidance strategies. The companies at the centre of these allegations are based here and Ireland has been directly accused in the United States, Britain and elsewhere of facilitating aggressive tax avoidance by multinational companies. It defies belief that there does not appear to be a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is beyond belief that we cannot discuss the issue and bring the people at the centre of this controversy before the sub-committee to ask them some questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Vótáil.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform sub-committee on global corporate multi-taxation architecture shall as part of its terms of reference invite into the committee to give testimony and answer questions representatives of multinational corporations based here in Ireland, including representatives of Apple, Google, Facebook and other such corporations as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a comment in earlier discussions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman made reference to a crisis situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am the only person you interrupt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are facing a crisis in this country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What comment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman made a statement earlier relating to the issue of inviting multinationals when in a crisis situation. I cannot remember the exact wording.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I paraphrased the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did. We can read the record and see what the Chairman said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. That is the exact comment. That was in the context of a discussion of whether we should bring in representatives of multinationals. We should be crisis-driven because our public finances are in the most severe crisis they have ever faced.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Terms of Reference of Sub-Committee on Global Taxation: Motions (3 Jul 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pressing it.