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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (7 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties taken into possession by each of the State backed banks in each of the past 12 months; the number in their possession at the beginning of each month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5388/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (7 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance when he and the Central Bank will implement the spirit of the Dáil Éireann motion passed on 26 January 2017 on tracker mortgages including the setting of a deadline for victims of the tracker mortgage scandal to be compensated within; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5420/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 409. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal can expect an appointment for a follow-up check-up from Letterkenny University Hospital following a gallbladder operation in June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5634/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 441. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to redevelop a training centre for persons with disabilities (details supplied) in County Donegal; when it is anticipated these plans will proceed to construction phase; when it is anticipated the centre will be ready to accept service users once again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5768/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators in Schools Provision (7 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to a request from a school (details supplied) in County Donegal for the provision of a defibrillator; the funding options and appropriate channels through which such a device may be applied for and sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5918/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (7 Feb 2017)

Pearse Doherty: 624. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has received an application from the local authority for the construction of a new pedestrian footbridge to span the Clady river at An Bun Beag in County Donegal, adjacent to the R527 road route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5361/17]

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)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the Minister. We received his statement very late. He mentioned that Ireland was asked by the Commission to collect the tax on Apple's worldwide profits. I challenge that statement. Is it the Commission's suggestion that we tax Apple's profits on products sold in the United States of America?

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)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Is it suggesting we collect the tax on profits from sales of Apple's products in Canada?

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)

Pearse Doherty: Not Canada. Is it asking us to collect tax on profits from sales of Apple products in South America?

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)

Pearse Doherty: The answer is "No". So the statement made to this committee - a throwaway statement that the Commission is asking us to collect tax on Apple's worldwide profits - is false. The accurate statement is that the Commission is asking us to tax the profits that are recorded by Apple of sales that happen outside of the Americas. Would that not be a more accurate statement?

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)

Pearse Doherty: Fine. Let us try to see if we can understand why sales of products by Apple in Canada, the US and South America are recorded in the United States of America as opposed to Ireland and why every other sale outside those jurisdictions are recorded in Ireland. The Minister has made the following comment a number of times. If we look at the back of an iPhone, we can see how we on this committee...

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)

Pearse Doherty: This is a statement of fact. This is not a dispute. Apple had structured itself from the 1980s with an Irish-registered company owning the intellectual property for all products sold outside the Americas. Is that not a statement of fact? Did representatives of Apple not say that in the US Senate hearing?

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)

Pearse Doherty: It might sound very plausible to people out there when the Minister comes to the committee and asks why should we tax sales of Apple products in Spain, the US or wherever. We know the US taxes the sales of products in the US, Canada and the rest of America. That has been identified. In all of the other jurisdictions, why did Apple structure itself in this way? I will rehash what Mr. Tim...

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)

Pearse Doherty: It is that an Irish-registered company pays for half of all the intellectual property or creativity going into Apple products under an arrangement dating back to the 1980s. The economic rights for the intellectual properties reside in an Irish company. Is it not the economic rights of the intellectual property that allows for the products to be taxed in the same jurisdiction, regardless of...

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)

Pearse Doherty: Let me say this. I have not mentioned the Commission.

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)

Pearse Doherty: I am challenging inaccuracies that the Minister has put before the committee. We have established one in the Minister's assessment that the Commission is asking us to tax all worldwide profits. We understand now that it is not the case and the statement has been debunked. I am challenging the Minister's comment to the committee that it is not appropriate that we would be asked to collect...

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)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking where the intellectual properties of Apple products lay.

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)

Pearse Doherty: I am not.

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)

Pearse Doherty: We are trying, in the first instance, to establish the position regarding economic rights. We are talking about economic rights and not intellectual property. I would appreciate if the Minister answered the questions. My contention is that economic rights for all sales of Apple products outside of the Americas rested with an Irish-registered company. That would not alter the Commission's...

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)

Pearse Doherty: If a company producing widgets was established in Dundalk and sold those widgets in Australia, Spain and the United States, where would the profits be taxable? The intellectual property for the development of the widgets rests in the company in Ireland. Where would the profits be calculated? Is it not standard that they are calculated in Ireland?