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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Convictions Lists (9 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 52. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for bogus self-employment for each of the years 2011 to 2016. [6485/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Convictions Lists (9 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 53. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions for bogus self-employment for each of the years 2011 to 2016. [6486/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 54. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline the repercussions of the regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 as regards the reinforcement of checks against relevant databases at external borders for Ireland. [6487/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 55. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the precautions her Department has made in preparation of the regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 as regards the reinforcement of checks against relevant databases at external borders. [6488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 56. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the precautions her Department is making for Ireland, post Brexit, in view of the regulation of the European Parliament and the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2016/399 as regards the reinforcement of checks against relevant databases at external borders. [6489/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud Data (9 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of instances of bogus self-employment referred to his Department in each of the years from 2011 to 2016. [6484/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (8 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance when NAMA began to use section 110 status with regard to the tax payment of €158 million by NAMA to the Revenue Commissioners and in view of the prohibition of section 110 status in relation to mortgages related to Irish property; the rationale for using this status; if the organisation used this status in joint enterprise with any private entities;...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (8 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 17 January 2017, when a response will issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6246/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (8 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if respite care services have ceased and are no longer being offered to service users at a facility (details supplied) in County Donegal; if so, the reason this decision was taken; the alternative arrangements in place for service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Waste Tyre Disposal (8 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he has taken to dispel concerns held by the tyre industry over lost revenues and trade, among others, which it is claimed will ensue as a result of new structures and regulations being introduced for the industry, including a new compliance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6149/17]

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

Pearse Doherty: I welcome all the witnesses and thank them for their presentations.. I have a couple of questions for Mr. Redmond. Will he clarify the position of American companies that have their headquarters in Ireland? If an American company that is operating in Ireland has its headquarters in the United States and repatriates its profits, having paid 12.5% tax on them in this jurisdiction, what...

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

Pearse Doherty: Every American company which is headquartered in the United States is liable to US tax if it shifts the profits back to America.

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

Pearse Doherty: Would they get a credit for the tax they paid in the member state, be it in Ireland where it is 12.5%, so if they were to pay the current rate, which is 35%, the 12.5% paid in Ireland would be deducted?

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

Pearse Doherty: Most companies would obviously pay tax on their profits accrued in a certain jurisdiction. The companies Apple Sales International, ASI, and Apple Operations Europe, AOE, have paid no tax anywhere in the world.

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

Pearse Doherty: We hear these throwaway remarks that are very good and clever. The public who are not accountants believe that the US company profits are taxable in the United States. However, is it not the case that every single US company that has its headquarters in the United States is taxable in the United States if it moves its profits back to the United States after paying tax in Ireland?

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

Pearse Doherty: The difference with these two companies incorporated in Ireland is that, unlike all the other US companies here, they did not pay any tax either in Ireland or anywhere in the world. They could invest their profits anywhere in the world outside of the US without paying tax.

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

Pearse Doherty: There is no requirement on them to repatriate the profits. They could invest in energy, in buying Supermac's, or whatever they want. There is no requirement on them. Sometimes it is put out that they are taxable in the US. There is no requirement on any US firm to repatriate its profits after it has paid tax to the headquartered member state.

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

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Phillip Bullock is the head of tax policy in Apple. Given that Apple Inc. is one of the largest, if not the largest, company in the world, I would imagine he knows his business. He gave sworn testimony before a US Senate hearing that there was an arrangement with the Irish Government which allowed for the taxable profits to be calculated at 2%. Does Mr. Redmond dispute that?

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

Pearse Doherty: Is Apple a member of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland?

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

Pearse Doherty: I am interested. I am not casting any aspersions on the character of the individual, but in sworn testimony before a US Senate hearing - I can read the transcripts if Mr. Redmond wishes but I am sure he is familiar with them - he speaks of a special tax arrangement. When he was asked under questioning from Senators, he said that was 2%. I think Mr. Tim Cook followed that up in that there...