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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the total paid to a special manager (details supplied) in County Kildare since their appointment. [37369/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Agreements (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax returned to the Vodafone group; if so, the reason and the cost to the State; and if he will provide any other companies which operate internationally to which the Government has returned tax in the past three years. [37403/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance if the introduction of last year's proposal to reduce the standard fund threshold for pensions, projected to raise in the region of €250 million, would impact on the savings that could be made by a proposal to standardise the pension tax relief rate and reduce the income linked pension ceiling to €70,000, projected to raise €555...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Application (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 207. To ask the Minister for Finance the saving he expects to make in private pension tax reliefs from the introduction of last year's budget proposal to reduce the standard fund threshold for pensions, which will see people above the SFT losing their pension tax reliefs [37815/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance the connection Springboard Mortgages has to Permanent TSB; if he will confirm that Springboard offered sub-prime mortgages; and the number of these mortgages remaining in operation. [37946/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Bonds Redemption (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 16 July 2013, the reason four billion one hundred and forty four million fifty five thousand two hundred and fifty four new AIB shares were issued to the national pension reserve fund in lieu of the €280 million dividend due and not 35.44 billion shares which equals the €280 million preference cash...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 486. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of performance reviews of employment grants conducted by the Industrial Development Agency that found that posts for which grant aid was committed were not created; the total number of unfilled posts and the total value of grants returned. [36897/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Job Numbers (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 487. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency for which a third level qualification is required for each year since 2001. [36898/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Job Numbers (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 488. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency for each salary band from €20,000 in bands of €10,000 up to €150,000 for each year since 2007. [36899/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (18 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 489. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the supports available to the aviation leasing industry; the drawdown of these supports and the number employed in this sector. [36902/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Apple's profits do not end up in the Caribbean.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Apple Operations International, AOI, is incorporated here and is not tax resident in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands or any other country. The company does not have tax residency here but is incorporated in Ireland and controlled in the United States. Either the United States decides the company is tax resident in the US because it is controlled there or Ireland decides the company is tax...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: We are discussing a different company.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome Professor Barry's presentation to the committee, which was very good. I would like to comment on other issues on which Professor Barry previously commented, including who writes the law. I am aware that this is an issue on which Dr. Jim Stewart and Professor Barry would probably disagree. I have heard Professor Barry refer to the radicals who ask who writes the law. I am not...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I asked last year that this committee investigate and holding hearings on these matters. This was prior to the availability of the Seanad report. Since then, we have had formal preliminary investigations into Ireland's sweetheart deals with multinational corporations, which in time will be proved or disproved. This boils down to something Professor Barry said earlier. Professor Barry,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: No.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I agree with Professor Barry that we have to be very conscious of the ramifications of any measure that we take. However, every year we make changes through the Finance Bill. We know the loophole exists whereby companies locate here and make billions in profits annually while not paying tax anywhere in the world. The Department of Finance is happy to have the matter dealt with at a global...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: It was. It used the methodology used by the World Bank.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am not familiar with it. The reason I ask is that the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, which claimed our effective tax rate was 11.9%, used a standardised methodology as described by the World Bank, whereby to come up with our effective tax rate it examined a company in Ireland which produces ceramic flowerpots and has a gross profit margin of 20%. This company does not trade...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Base Erosion and Profit Sharing: Discussion with Trinity College (17 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I would also love to see the methodology behind the numbers.