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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships Data (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the public private partnerships his department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; the nature of each project in terms of design, build, maintain and so on, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4438/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéim na gCúntóirí Teanga (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 659. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an gcuirfear Cuntóir Teanga ar fáil do scoil i gContae Dhún na nGall (sonraí curtha ar fáil); agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [4351/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Private Partnerships Data (30 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 661. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the public private partnerships her Department is currently engaged in; the name, cost and timeframe of each; the names of all private parties involved; the nature of each project in terms of design, build, maintain and so on, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4431/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will pick up on a couple of questions. How many meetings of the working group have taken place so far during which the Irish contributors have not contributed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: How many meetings of the working group on CCCTB attended by our officials have taken place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Is either Mr. Lamassoure or Mr. Tang aware of any other member state that has adopted the same position adopted by Ireland, namely, being instructed by their-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: So there are other member states in the same position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Are they taking a position of just going as a listening brief?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I am no defender of the Government in this regard but I presume it is because they are opposed to the CCCTB, do not want to engage in it and are likely to oppose it at the end of this process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I want to go back over some ground. My colleague mentioned the Lisbon treaty and Article 48.7. This article does not involve enhanced co-operation; it involves qualified majority voting where unanimity can be achieved in the Council to allow it to move to a proposal in terms of qualified majority voting. I know Mr. Lamassoure answered in terms of enhanced co-operation and the number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: You have a veto in deciding to go to qualified majority voting. What is clear is that whenever unanimity is required, whatever the issue, it is almost impossible to attain because even if there were no objections on the issue, there is always the temptation for one member state for which the issue is not of paramount importance to retain its "yes" vote, to negotiate on some other completely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: If a member state did agree to go to qualified majority voting, as Mr. Juncker wants, and as Mr. Lamassoure has just argued, once that decision was made, would there be any changes to the proposal at a future date be by qualified majority voting or would it revert back decision through unanimity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Should we let Europe decide -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I strongly disagree with Mr. Tang and take a very strong position against where the Government is in terms of Ireland's corporate tax rate. It is a matter I have raised over many years. For instance, many years ago, I and another member of this committee had argued in favour of bringing Apple before the committee. The Government, and some Opposition parties, refused to do so. We are very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Given the mobility of the large companies, we are talking about companies with turnovers of some €750 million or more, how will it be that instead of Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands competing with each other that it will be the EU versus those outside the EU, so that companies will use jurisdictions outside the EU? We will not see any greater tax base as a result, but the tax...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: That adds to the argument that the OECD should be driving this. I hear Mr. Tang's points. I disagree with certain things but the OECD is dragging its feet on some of these issues. I have no doubt about that. What I cannot understand is that Ireland will veto these proposals and yet a huge amount of energy is being put into this. It has been ongoing for the past decade. A huge amount of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say it is impossible at European level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I did not say it is impossible at European level. Of course it is possible at European level but Ireland will use its veto in respect of this issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Therefore, it is not going to happen at that level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: Discussion (25 Jan 2018)

Pearse Doherty: It is because that is about a European institution taking tax sovereignty to its heart. Mr. Tang may be coming at this matter for a genuine reason because of scandals such as, for example, that involving Apple. However, he will be familiar with the fact that before it arose more than ten years ago, it was a principle of many of the leaders of the European Union that they wanted to take tax...