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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: I stated earlier - Mr. Cody even said it - that the only place the €13.1 billion had been mentioned was in the press release. That said an awful lot to very many people involved in the sector. Unfortunately, Mr. Cody did not really answer my question about overviewing or whether the Revenue Commissioners had specifically gone back and examined the audit structures or whether they...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: I assure Mr. Cody I will allow him back in. I wanted to assess whether the Department or the Revenue Commissioners had actually spent time examining how the Commission had come up with the figure. Perhaps that is not a question for Mr. Hogan but for Mr. Cody. Has the State, or any of its organs, determined specifically how the €13.1 billion figure was calculated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Rather than the figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Maybe I was not clear, but I was not suggesting that in the slightest. I was not suggesting Mr. Cody employ the Commission's methodology in the collection of Irish tax. That is a million miles away from what I said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Mr. Hogan has said his engagement with the Commission is ongoing and that the rules of engagement for the entire process are somewhat fluid. Would that be a fair characterisation?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Mr. Hogan has mentioned that the Commission was quite indifferent to certain elements of the process. It simply wants the transfer. Again, I am characterising the situation. Has Mr. Hogan discussed the proceeds in any way? For instance, if one puts €13 billion into a current account, one will receive considerable interest. If one puts it into an investment account, one will get a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Has Apple, for instance, stated anything about where the proceeds of the investment might go? Has it laid a claim on it? Has Mr. Hogan had that discussion?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: With regard to the proofs the Revenue Commissioners employ when applying the rules in the avoidance of double taxation between Ireland and any other country with which there is an arrangement, will Mr. Cody briefly go through the verification process? In layman's terms, is a tax clearance certificate issued by the
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: The analysis the Comptroller and Auditor General provided gave a helpful breakdown of the top 100 taxpayers and their effective rates of corporation tax and all the rest of it. Approximately 80% them are paying over 10%. Mr. Cody mentioned rather helpfully in his statement that "In summary, if the effective tax rate of each of the 13 companies is calculated before taking account of double...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Given Revenue's audits have yielded €500 million, that is to be expected.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Are the definitions in the legislation tight enough or are there definitions?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: Can I ask one final question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (30 Nov 2017) Alan Farrell: It relates to how the residency rules are policed. What level of engagement would the Revenue have on that aspect of the tax code here for large multinationals? Does Revenue have a division that looks after it? I appreciate it is quite a broad question.
- Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: I now call Deputies Bríd Smith and Ruth Coppinger. They have 20 minutes between them. Are they sharing their time and taking ten minutes each?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (28 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: Apologies have been received from Senators Joan Freeman and Catherine Noone. I propose we go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: I would like to welcome from HIQA Ms Mary Dunnion, chief inspector and director of regulation, and Ms Eva Boyle, inspection manager at HIQA's children's team. I thank them for appearing before us this afternoon. Before we commence and in accordance with procedure, I am required to draw the attention of witnesses to the fact that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: Deputy Sherlock is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: Thank you Deputy Rabbitte. I have a few questions myself. I visited Oberstown shortly after I was appointed Chairman of the committee. I should have done so long before because it is in my constituency. Having visited the facility for quite a number of hours there were a number of observations that I made in line with the witnesses' report. I visited before I read the report. I found it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: In terms of the reaction time and the number of individuals on the date of the inspection, who had knowledge of the matter to which Ms Boyle referred, did the report highlight that no members of staff were trained or were there only medical personnel on site?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: HIQA Inpsection Report on Oberstown Detention Centre: Discussion (28 Nov 2017)
Alan Farrell: I refer to out-of-hours personnel where the medical team is present. Doctors are on call and so on.