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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)

John McGuinness: I invite the Commissioner to comment on what was just said, as we are concluding the meeting.

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)

John McGuinness: I thank the Commissioner-----

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)

John McGuinness: Sorry, Deputy Durkan. I thank the Commissioner for attending with her officials-----

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)

John McGuinness: I thank them for their co-operation and for the extra time given.

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)

John McGuinness: Please, Deputy Durkan.

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)

John McGuinness: I thank the Commissioner for attending and for giving of her time. She gave us a lot more time than we had expected. I thank members for their participation.

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)

John McGuinness: I thank the Commissioner.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (1 Feb 2017)

John McGuinness: 104. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve services for persons with Lyme’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4690/17]

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)

John McGuinness: We will resume in public session. This is item 7 on our agenda, EU state aid investigations into tax rulings, with Deputy Michael Noonan, Minister for Finance. It is to conclude by 11.30 a.m. Today, the joint committee will continue its consideration of the EU state aid investigation into the Apple tax rulings. In our first session, we will hear from the Minister for Finance, Deputy...

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)

John McGuinness: It is not a deposition.

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)

John McGuinness: The Minister's position is clear from his response and there is no point pressing it.

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)

John McGuinness: Deputy Doherty has made his point.

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)

John McGuinness: We are getting into detail here. The Minister is not here to------

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)

John McGuinness: The Deputy's time is up. The Minister has responded and I have to move 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)

John McGuinness: Could the Minister provide clarification on a question asked by Senator Conway-Walsh? We were talking about the cost to date of €1.8 million. If it is to take some years to deal with this case, that figure will obviously increase year on year. Are there any circumstances in which the State could get back that money, depending on the outcome?

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)

John McGuinness: Could I also have clarification on the methodology the Commission is asking us to apply in the calculation regarding the €13 billion? Is that, in itself, not interference in the role of the Revenue Commissioners in that it is dictating what they should do?

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)

John McGuinness: Who is going to calculate that figure?

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)

John McGuinness: If the Minister's position is that the Commission is wrong and that the €13 billion in taxes is not due, does it not follow that the Commission, by asking or dictating that a particular methodology be used to calculate the relevant figure, is asking the State here to stand up its case and imposing a position on us that is not acceptable?

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)

John McGuinness: Is there a particular way to calculate 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)

John McGuinness: Mr. Cody has offered to consider the question and then to set it out in correspondence.