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Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Investigations (29 Sep 2015)

Joe Higgins: ...for Finance his views on reports (details supplied) that the Government intends to appeal the decision of the European Courts of Justice in relation to the low effective tax rate paid by the Apple corporation. [33288/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (10 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: ...biggest Opposition party in this Parliament has chosen to weigh in to this debate in order to bolster the giant multinational corporations to which I refer? For example, he mentioned Google and Apple. The latter made a profit of €18 billion in one quarter of last year. However, the Deputy in question did not have a word to say about the Garda's dawn raids on the homes of ordinary...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...of the corporation tax policies of the Irish Government. He said that if California could have Ireland's corporation tax rate, it would become an independent country. He said he used to think the Apple corporation was a California company but now realised it is an Irish company. He made other comments such as those, which were greeted with great guffaws apparently by hundreds of chief...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...agreements with five countries on the day that the European Union Commission, which is as right-wing and neoliberal a body as one could find, says that successive Irish Governments have allowed Apple, a major multinational, to siphon off billions of euro from the Irish taxpayer into private corporate profits to satisfy corporate greed? This is being proposed on the very day we are told...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...rate of 2.2% gives added urgency to the situation. Even if the Minister does not accept that or Mr. Coffey's estimate of 8%, there are serious anomalies and problems in this regard. In 2013, Apple had savings of €146 billion, Microsoft, €80 billion, Google, €56 billion and Samsung, €49 billion. Leaving aside the Irish controversy, these major corporations are...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Presidency Engagements (28 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...for transfusing revenues that are raised around the world, including in the poorest countries, through the tax mechanisms available in this State and onto places such as Bermuda. In the case of Apple, for example, which is a massive corporation, a tax mechanism known as the "double Irish" enabled the company to keep its international taxes to 3.2% of foreign profits in 2011, 2.2% in 2010...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Strategy Statement 2011-2014 and IFSC Clearing House Group: Discussion with Department of the Taoiseach (22 May 2013)

Joe Higgins: The point is that the law in this country and the governing ethos of this and previous Governments facilitate giant corporations such as Apple to be registered in such a way that they can play the game internationally and hide away tens of billions of euro which has been earned God knows where. According to agencies that deal with the poorest people on earth, whether in Africa, Asia or Latin...

Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: ...from issues of trade? If the Taoiseach were talking to representatives of trade associations, would it have been appropriate to raise that any Irish firms that go to China should insist, unlike Apple and other Western multinationals, on total rights, including trade union rights, for Chinese workers? Would it be appropriate to raise that? How on earth can the Taoiseach stand up in this...