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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will take issues of media plurality and industrial relations into account when he is making his final decision on the sale of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5810/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Data (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Libyans, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Yemenis, Sudanese and Somalis that have been issued with visas to Ireland in the past two years. [6011/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which a person (details supplied) can obtain a greater annuity from their PRSA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5993/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abduction (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will investigate a case (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [5640/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5973/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a replacement for a primary care social worker (details supplied) has not been employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5997/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 689. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will respond to correspondence dated 1 November 2016 which was sent to her office via email on 10 November 2017 and co-signed by this Deputy. [5706/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is absolutely right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody here is casting any aspersions on the 150,000 workers who work in the multinationals that operate here. Nobody has suggested that any such aspersions should be cast. It is a complete red herring. I would like to pick up on a line of questioning from earlier in this meeting. Apple is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. Does Mr. Redmond have any reason to believe...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, but how-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think that is a consistent answer because even though this issue is now the subject of legal proceedings, Mr. Redmond was quite happy a moment ago to say he believes that what Revenue told this committee was correct, while refusing to say that he believes what Apple said to the Senator congressional committee was correct. Why is he willing to quote an argument that suits Apple and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Representatives of Apple told the congressional committee that there was a deal, but when they subsequently discovered that this statement might cost the company €13 billion, they suddenly concluded that there was no deal and decided to fight it in court. Could Mr. Redmond forgive a poor layperson looking at this for believing that it stretches their intelligence and their credulity?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I think any reasonable person looking at it would say the company has been caught with its pants down. It said something it believed to be true at the time, but it decided to backtrack on that at a later point when it discovered that it was going to cost it dearly. I think that is what any reasonable person looking at this would conclude. We will move on. I think the point has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I am asking Mr. Keegan about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With due respect, I heard Mr. Keegan's opinion on this issue very clearly earlier in this meeting. He said he believes the Commission is interfering and has made the wrong call on this matter. We get that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With due respect, the issues that Mr. Keegan is willing to address, although Mr. Redmond will not, are the subject of the legal case. Mr. Keegan has given his opinion but the issues are the subject of a legal case. Dr. Stewart has made the opposite argument that legally the profits accrue to Ireland. Opinions may differ but the matter will be adjudicated by the European Court of Justice....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Keegan's work involves tax matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Keegan think it is morally acceptable that a company can earn €22 billion in one year yet pay less than 1% tax, wherever that tax might be paid?