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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: 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]

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.