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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: That is what I asked.
- 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: The companies that I have just referred to are legally tax resident nowhere in the world. We can debate whether they should be. I believe that if they are incorporated here then they should be taxed here.
- 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: The companies are tax resident nowhere. Mr. Keegan's argument is a bit spurious.
- 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: Does Mr. Keegan think it is acceptable-----
- 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.
- 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: Genuinely, I do not mean to be rude and I appreciate the answers.
- 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 only have a short time to ask questions.
- 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: If what Mr. Keegan has said is true, does that mean he is strongly in favour of, as Dr. Stewart has rightly argued here for, a common consolidated corporate tax base? The Government is resistant to or at least suspicious of the idea. Does Mr. Keegan agree we need a method to take account of where we allocate profits?
- 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: Successive Irish Governments have resisted doing so because they know it is not in their interest-----
- 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: -----or have perceived it as not being in their interest because they knew and know that companies have used this country as a tax haven.
- 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: That is the reality. It is the dirty secret that everybody knew. Successive Irish Governments knew these companies used Ireland as a tax haven but it suited them to say nothing, to resist efforts by others such as Oxfam and academics like Dr. Stewart and others who pointed out this reality and to say "nothing to see here".
- 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: My time is almost up so I shall ask the two Jims, that is, Mr. Clarken and Dr. Stewart, a few questions.
- 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 would not say that-----
- 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: -----but we can continue our debate on another day. I commend Mr. Clarken and Dr. Stewart on the work of their organisations and their individual work in this whole area. Would Mr. Clarken from Oxfam agree it is fair to say that the major contributing factor to the staggering level of inequality he has identified in his recent report about eight people owning the same wealth as half the...
- 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]