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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: No, private session is fine. I just want to clarify what we have agreed. We are reverting to all of this correspondence-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: -----because it relates to many issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That was the decision - we have agreed to revert to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine. We can go into private session now to tease it out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: It might be helpful to go into private session and tease out matters so that we know what we are reverting to. I do not mind.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We are coming back to it next week?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Are we finished with correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have to follow up on my correspondence on outstanding matters from the Department of Education and Skills which was to provide a list of properties. There were three letters on the properties under the first agreement.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The second matter relates to goodwill payments.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Lovely. I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: When the substantial infrastructure is in place and when it is decided between Revenue and Apple what will be paid, does the agreement envisage that one lump sum will be paid in?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Obviously some agreement is written up, so what is the length of time of the stages?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will leave it for now. It certainly seems to be made up as one goes along. I will come back later because Deputy Farrell is waiting.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is not what the Commission requested. Anyway I will let-----

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. McCarthy is very welcome ar ais arís. We are going from Panama to paradise and in between we have the red apple. I appreciate the work Revenue and the Department of Finance does. I am certainly not one to quote President Trump but he certainly has a view on Ireland. There is a narrative out there that we are not paying our fair share of taxes. Would Mr. McCarthy accept that...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Just over the past couple of months? We have had a number of tax amnesties and we had the DIRT inquiry going way back.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tax Justice Network Ireland, which is made up of a very broad range of organisations, is has having a session next week. That information has just been passed onto all of us. Will any officials from Revenue or the Department of Finance go along to hear the concerns being raised by these organisations?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: So there will be somebody there next week at the launch of the Tax Justice Network's report.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I do not know much about this, but the group obviously has serious concerns. It is launching a report called Tax Games - The Race to the Bottom. The launch will be hosted by the Tax Justice Network Ireland. I am not asking for an answer. I am making the point that there are obviously very serious concerns in respect of tax avoidance, tax evasion or both. Does Mr. Cody...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely. I appreciate what Revenue is doing but the issues have not really come to the fore because of proactive work - although I am sure Mr. Cody will contradict me on that - but because of the work of concerned journalists. The information has come from various other outside sources in regard to the Paradise and Panama Papers, etc. Is that right? Then the Revenue Commissioners are...