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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Do we know how many such companies there are?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: Mr. Cody can come back to us on it because I know other Deputies want to get in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: It is on the website.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank Mr. Cody.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I have just worked out the percentages in my head and 62% of companies have no liability for corporation tax. Does the report tell us why? Can Mr. Cody furnish the committee with that information?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: The data may be there but I am seeking the rationale and the reason.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: We should have read the report. Is that what Mr. Cody is saying?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 17 - Tax compliance interventions
Chapter 18 - Tax relief on film production (28 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I will have a look before the day is out.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Homelessness is increasing every year.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Absolutely.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: There is a lot of slagging going on now.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Is the Minister of State not very good?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: 502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects his Department plans to submit for funding through the Connecting Europe facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49834/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Would it be possible to take the opening statements as read, because we have a vote coming up and we have to be in the Dáil Chamber for 2 p.m.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Could we have a very quick synopsis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: My questions are to Mr. Davis. There was a report in The Guardian on 26 July of this year. The headline read: "Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings". I am sure Mr. Davis is aware of that article. It had to do with a whistleblower.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I will quote one of the things that the whistleblower said: "There have been countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on." Is that accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I want to go on to some of the quotes from the whistleblower. What he said was that a number of different words that were picked up wrongly by the iPhone that would trigger Siri and that created a situation where there was inadvertent recordings. He said that they were only encouraged to report these accidental activations as technical problems and there was no specific procedures to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Okay. He said there is not much vetting of who works there - that is, the company that would be contracted to do it - and he said the amount of data that they are free to look through seems quite broad. He said also that it would not be difficult to identify the person that they are listening to, especially with accidental triggers, because it could include addresses and names. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Okay. I did it very quickly because I have an iPhone. When a person asks Siri if it is always listening, the response is that it respects a person's privacy, but only when the person is talking to it. That is not quite correct, because if there are inadvertent recordings or listening, it is not as clear cut as that.