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Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Mar 2019)

Shane Ross: She upset the whole apple cart.

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014 (3 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: Was there a firm-specific event here in Ireland that affected corporation tax? Was Apple paying a huge amount?

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014 (3 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: Yes. I am very worried about the dependence. May I ask one question about the Apple case, against which Ireland apparently is defending? Europe claims there is an issue of state aid whereby two nations already have been hauled over the coals and have been found to have breached it. Is it true the Department already has employed a barrister to defend Ireland? Do the witnesses think the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014 (3 Dec 2015)

Shane Ross: In that case, the Department will be stating it does not want to pursue Apple for the billions or whatever amount it is that apparently is owed if the judgment goes against Ireland.

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Oct 2015)

Shane Ross: ..., in making profits and all the spin-off effects, in certain high profile cases they are using Ireland more as a tax vehicle than for anything else. Everybody is familiar with the issue of Apple. Everybody is also familiar with the issue of the double Irish, which the Minister quite rightly abolished last year. Despite this, there are figures that really are quite staggering. I will...

National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 May 2014)

Shane Ross: ...to do exactly what it likes with what is left, masked with a few pretty cosmetic restrictions. I do not like the legislation, although it has been well spun and well sold and is coated in the language of apple pie and ice cream. The fund will be used, ultimately or pretty shortly, for political purposes and nothing in the legislation stops it from being used for that purpose. My first...

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)

Shane Ross: It is bad for Ireland to have these particular little dodges and to be used as a conduit. It is quite obvious that Apple used the place to warehouse €77 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Accounts 2012: Discussion with IDA Ireland (19 Sep 2013)

Shane Ross: International comparison is probably a little different. When the Apple situation broke in the US Congress, the chief executive made a statement that it had a special corporate tax rate deal with Ireland of 2%. Mr. O'Leary went to America very soon after that to counter that claim. Could he explain what he said to them?

European Council: Statements (29 May 2013)

Shane Ross: ...incentives to organisations to locate in certain regions or in respect of other allowances that are open to specific companies to attract them. In this context, I say thank God we have got Google, Apple and the rest here in Ireland and in consequence have those 150,000 jobs plus. Thank God that GDP has increased by God knows what percentage, as the IDA has stated it would drop by 30%...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)

Shane Ross: ...assumption that people have an illiquid asset from which they can produce liquidity. It does not happen like that. There is no liquidity in owning a house. The Government is trying to squeeze apple juice from an orange. It cannot say that because a person owns a house, it will take cash from him. I note what the Government has done in giving deferrals, but deferrals are a cop-out....

Seanad: Early Childhood Education: Statements (Resumed). (5 Oct 2005)

Shane Ross: Her lobbying has been determined and particularly effective. There should not be some half-baked package in the form of a compromise between Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats. We must grapple with this problem on both fronts, that of the unfortunate person paying so much to go to work in terms of time, traffic and other factors. It must be grappled with equally vigorously by...

Seanad: Order of Business. (2 Jun 2005)

Shane Ross: ...Brian Hayes used the word "systemic". As it is convenient, we have for a long time been happy to dismiss the difficulties, brutalities and wrongdoing of some members of the Garda Síochána as bad apples in a good force. The questions that must now be asked are, how many bad apples are there to be rooted out, how systemic this is, whether there really is a kind of disease within the Garda...

Seanad: Aviation Action Plan: Statements. (31 May 2005)

Shane Ross: ...brilliant ball with Bertie, have made a little bit of noise and said they do not like this very much. The House need not worry because they will not do anything about it; they will not upset the apple cart on this one. They are making all the right noises by protesting a bit as though they did not get their own way which they did.

Seanad: Road Safety: Motion. (14 May 2003)

Shane Ross: I will. If members of the Opposition wish to produce the funds and tell us from where they are coming, that is fine but to talk about funding this, that and the other in isolation is apple pie and ice cream because they made a dog's dinner of funding initiatives when they were in power. Let us be honest about it. They were put out of power because they were not so good at managing Ireland's...