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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: For the last year, for which Mr. Howard has data available for the top companies, what was the effective tax rate that the top ten companies paid?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: It can be provided to the committee.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. A number of decisions were taken by Government in recent years regarding the double Irish tax mechanism and ending tax residency and stateless companies and a bit of a tail period was provided for companies that were incorporated here prior to 1 January 2015, where basically they were allowed to continue to operate as stateless companies up to 1 January 2021. Is Mr....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but if one were incorporated prior to 1 January 2015 and not tax resident anywhere in the world, one still can be non-tax resident anywhere in the world until 1 January 2021 under the transitionary arrangements. Can Ms Doonan inform the committee that no such companies are availing of the transitionary arrangements, which means that they are here but not resident either here or anywhere...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: The answer speaks to itself. The fact that Mr. Howard cannot reassure us and say there is no such thing-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough. I appreciate that and if the information can be provided, hopefully in plain English or Irish, we will accept it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: This question is for Mr. McCarthy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I come back to a parliamentary question I tabled, the answer to which I presume Mr. McCarthy had an input in. It flows from the national reform programme of the EU, which called for measures to be carried out, notably in 2017, to reach the goal. That was regarding the fact that the Commission is of the view that we are in breach, I presume, of the expenditure benchmark given the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: AIB.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I appreciate that. Mr. McCarthy has said the Commission has not made it clear that action has to be taken. In the report it published it called for measures to reach the goal, specifically and notably in 2017.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Yes. That view can be parked because it is disputed by the Department and the Government. The point Mr. McCarthy has made here, however, is that the Commission did not call for an adjustment. It has called for one. Let us consider the outcome if the Department loses the argument, into which it entered before the Commission published the report. Obviously, the Commission believed it was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: I will ask my final question and then let in my colleagues. The point Mr. McCarthy is making is that the end justifies the means, as if to say: "Bugger the other rules and if we get to the point anyway, we will be okay and it does not matter that we have broken the rules on the way." I am not a big fan of the rules, but I just want to understand the position. For us, the expenditure...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Corporation Tax Receipts: Department of Finance and Revenue Commissioners (14 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: And Mr. McCarthy will come back on the fiscal space.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Fine Gael has been in government.

Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: There is a lot of tension in Fine Gael this weather. It will all be over next week, folks - just relax.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Cuirim fáilte roimhe an Aire Stáit roimh an coiste. The Minister of State says he hopes to have more clarity shortly about the timescale for Setanta but he has given no clarity for the hundreds of people who have been waiting years for their payments. Can he give any indication of when payments will be made to these individuals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: A total of 250 payments will issue shortly. What is the timescale for the other 1,400?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: That would probably be next year for the second tranche.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Pearse Doherty: Will all the claims that have been settled be paid out by the start of the summer? Will they be paid out during or by the end of July, for example?