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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is my understanding that the European arms industry provides Israel with about one third of its weapons. Would that be right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Are the same companies that are supplying Israel with arms to carry out genocide able to receive, or are they currently receiving, subsidies from the EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Is there somebody here who could answer that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Perhaps our friends from the EU can answer that question. It is an important question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We should know whether the same companies that are supplying Israel with arms to carry out genocide are either able to receive or currently receiving subsidies from the EU? Is there anything that precludes companies that are supplying to Israel from availing of these subsidies that we contribute to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am not asking about specific companies. In all of the Commission's mechanisms, what is there to exclude companies that are supplying weapons to Israel from availing of EU funding to which Irish taxpayers are contributing? Rather than individual companies, what is there to make sure that it does not happen? Is there anything there to make sure it does not happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. I will take it that it is the case Irish taxpayers are subsidising companies that are arming Israel. Does anybody have anything to the contrary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: It is important that we know what mechanisms there are to stop it going above and beyond that. People want to know. People who are contributing to this, including the constituents I represent in Mayo, would want to know that. I am just seeking clarity on it. It is a key point. Are companies that produce cluster munitions able to receive, or are they currently receiving, subsidies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The witnesses cannot answer my question on the other part around whether subsidies are being received from the EU by companies that are supplying arms to Israel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am trying to decipher how it is that Irish taxpayers funding cluster munitions is compatible with domestic law. The witnesses would know better than me if it is compatible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Mr. Ryan is saying that it is compatible with domestic law according to the legal advice that was received.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Obviously it must be compliant with domestic law, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In this committee we are concerned with domestic law as well as EU law. I am seeking to be helpful in order that people have clarity in their own minds as to where their money is going and what it is going towards. I will pass over to my colleague.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sorry, I see a vote has been called and I will have to leave for that in the Dail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Two questions that come to mind, which we have already discussed, are: how can we be in this situation where Irish law explicitly prohibits the funding of any factory that produces cluster munitions, and not just direct funding of the production of cluster munitions, and that we end up in this situation where taxpayers' money is being used towards this? The second question is: why on earth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Proposals (22 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need to make a submission to the committee to answer those questions and many of the others that were not-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance the value and number of successful claims under the research and development tax credit made by SMEs and non-SMEs, respectively, in each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023; if his Department will consider introducing a simplified application process for SMEs to encourage research and innovation among indigenous companies; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance his response to the European Commission's opening of an infringement procedure against Ireland and issuance of a formal letter of notice regarding incorrect transposition of the 4th and 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22792/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (21 May 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the total tax revenue as a share of GNI* since 2016; total projected tax revenue as a share of GNI* out to 2027, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22734/24]