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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Clarken.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I thank Dr. Stewart.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Media Pluralism (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will take issues of media plurality and industrial relations into account when he is making his final decision on the sale of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5810/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Data (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Libyans, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Yemenis, Sudanese and Somalis that have been issued with visas to Ireland in the past two years. [6011/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which a person (details supplied) can obtain a greater annuity from their PRSA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5993/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Child Abduction (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will investigate a case (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [5640/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Delays (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5973/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a replacement for a primary care social worker (details supplied) has not been employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5997/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 689. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will respond to correspondence dated 1 November 2016 which was sent to her office via email on 10 November 2017 and co-signed by this Deputy. [5706/17]

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to follow up on the previous round of questions. The Minister should know the answers to these questions because he has decided to appeal a Commission ruling which states that we are owed €13 billion plus interest, money this State could do with. I want to know, and I suspect many in the wider public want to know, why the Minister decided to pay millions of euro to...

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not based on facilitating tax evasion.

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The explanation for why Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour might have decided to support the appeal is of course that they were all in government over the years that this took place and if the ruling goes against the Government and Apple, they are all implicated in this. That is why they have decided to vote against it. The Minister has not given an argument that is in any way convincing...

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The IP does not rest in the United States.

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was incorporated in Ireland in a ghost company operating out of a company that was tax resident here.

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is difficult to contain one's frustration in all of this. In my case, I put forward a motion to this committee in 2013 asking that Apple representatives be brought in to answer some of these questions. The Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Labour parties all banded together to ensure that it did not happen. They even turned off the cameras while we were discussing it. This is the...

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know this. Time is very short and I do not wish to be rude, but I understand those distinctions.

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Revenue not have any obligation if Ireland is being used in some way? Any company that is incorporated in Ireland is using Ireland in some sense. For example, the witness mentioned earlier how Ireland is ultimately under the jurisdiction of the European Court as a member of the European Union. Does Revenue not feel any responsibility or obligation whatsoever if Ireland is being used...

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not really what I asked Mr. Cody, in fairness, and my time is extremely limited here.

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)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not asking Mr. Cody what Revenue does. I am asking him a very direct question: does he feel an obligation to do anything if he believes a company is in any way using Ireland to exploit loopholes to evade or avoid tax or does he simply say that if it does not affect us, we are not bothered? It is a very simple question, in fairness.