Results 3,501-3,520 of 4,002 for speaker:Rose Conway Walsh
- Seanad: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Feb 2017)
Rose Conway Walsh: The farming organisations who are depending on us in here to put proper legislation in place will be severely disappointed that the amendment was not accepted.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister for attending. I understand the constraints he is under in the context of discussing this matter. I have a couple of broad points to make. Among the reasons given for taking the appeal against the Apple tax ruling and for the refusal to collect the money was that it may not all belong to Ireland. In light of Commissioner Vestager's comment that the vast majority of...
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Minister disputing what the Commissioner has explicitly stated to the committee at its meeting earlier this week, namely, that the large majority of the money is, in her opinion, owed to Ireland? Is there a basis for the Minister disputing 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: Can we take it off the table now if the Minister is not refuting what the Commissioner is saying?
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: Okay, so it may need to be left there.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: With regard to the Commissioner's comments about her staff investigating approximately 1,000 tax rulings being offered by European governments to companies and which investigations concern the amounts of tax they owed. The Commissioner also confirmed that there are no further open investigations into tax arrangements in Ireland or elsewhere. Does this prove that the investigation into...
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: I need to ask the Minister a couple of other questions. Will he tell us how much has been spent on the appeal to date and how much the Department has set aside for spending on this appeal?
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: How much has been set aside?
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: No. The Minister is used to talking about billions. When Revenue is setting out taxation for indigenous companies it has a strict methodology for that. Was a methodology used for Apple and other multinational companies?
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: I need to ask the Minister-----
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: My time will run out.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: Does the Minister think it is right that, as a Government, we allow companies like Apple to set up phantom companies with no employees or assets? Does that not ring alarm bells? Why would a company do that? Is there something in legislation that we can do to stop that happening?
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: That is not disputed.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: We have not got long enough. I thank the Minister.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: I am not sure of the value of me continuing to ask questions when the crux of the matter cannot be dealt with here with the restrictions that are around it. However, I think we need to address a few things. The transcripts which this debacle centres around speak for themselves. On 30 November 1990, Apple's tax adviser met with Revenue Commissioners and stated that the company would be...
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: That is my direct experience in levies and charges.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: I can only describe my experiences.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: Unfortunately some of these people are dead. They have taken their own lives because of the way that they felt they were hounded by Revenue.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: Did Revenue have full understanding and knowledge that by having the phantom company there, Apple was being facilitated to avoid paying tax? It is nothing to do with the branch.
- 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)
Rose Conway Walsh: To me, a company with no employees, no assets and no activity is a phantom company.