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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Deputy Liam Twomey, who has two minutes to speak.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: We might allow Mr. Saint-Amans to respond and the Deputy can put other questions to him later.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Saint-Amans. I wish to suspend for one or two minutes, as there is a technical glitch. We will drop the call for a moment, as we are hearing audio from Mr. Saint-Amans but we are not getting a picture.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Saint-Amans for his patience. Just before the brief interruption I invited Deputy Michael McGrath to ask him a few questions. He has ten minutes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I welcome Mr. Pascal Saint-Amans, director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. The format of the meeting will be that Mr. Saint-Amans will make his opening remarks and we will then have a question-and-answer session. Before we commence business and given that we are on a live audiovisual link, I remind members, witnesses and those in the gallery that all mobile telephones...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Saint-Amans. I wish to provide Mr. Saint-Amans with an idea as to how we will proceed. I will begin by asking some questions and then each of the main spokespersons of the different parties will have ten minutes in which to make their opening contributions. I understand Mr. Saint-Amans will be with us for a maximum of two hours. On that basis, I will divide the remaining time...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: With that thought in mind - that the organisation is not about harmonisation and creating the same system right across the European Union - and bearing in mind that one of the cornerstones of the Irish economy has been our 12.5% corporation tax rate, about which there has been a great deal of confusion, whether deliberate of unintentional, some countries are currently coming up with regimes...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. Saint-Amans. To move on to another area, much publicity in recently times has involved US multinationals and there have been a number of hearings in Washington and also some hearings in London concerning taxation and US multinationals. In Mr. Saint-Amans's opinion, how does the US view the BEPS, base erosion profit shifting, model?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Joint Sub-Committee on Global Corporate Taxation: Global Taxation Architecture: Discussion with Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (23 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: What is Mr. Saint-Amans's interpretation of it?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (18 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the refusal of a Student Universal Support Ireland grant to a person (details supplied) in County Cork in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36233/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Appeals (18 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 668. To ask the Minister for Health when a determination will be made on an appeal under the fair deal scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36080/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Who determines that? Is it the Insolvency Service of Ireland, the Central Bank, the banks or the personal insolvency practitioner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I thank Mr. O'Connor for coming before the committee this afternoon for what was a very comprehensive presentation. I very much appreciate the way in which he engaged with the committee members with a very open and frank position that was not overstated in terms of his own goals and how he will achieve them. It is important that people hear the measured tones with which he engaged with us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Can we have a question rather than a commentary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: As this rolls out, some cases will be suited to going down the insolvency route. I suppose one welcomes the development of an insolvency service in the same way one welcomes the development of a cancer treatment centre. One does not want people to be in difficulty, but one welcomes the response to that difficulty. There will be people who, when they go through that assessment, will not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I understand that the Revenue Commissioners prints a list of people who engage in tax evasion. It is a name-and-shame process, but there is nothing to be ashamed of if somebody becomes insolvent. People go broke every day of the week, so why do we need a public register?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I worked in adult education for about 20 years, specifically in the area of adult literacy. A peculiar aspect of the Irish psyche is that people will talk openly on television about being an addict or having a dysfunctional life, but the level of confidentiality people have with regard to literacy problems is incredible. The type of confidentiality one must give people to get into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: People with reading and writing difficulties need help as well, but they do not want the world to know they are getting it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I feel very strongly about this legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Insolvency Service of Ireland: Discussion (17 Jul 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: If it is a policy issue it rests with us, as opposed to the Insolvency Service of Ireland.