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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...this point too much. The Minister gave one definition of "in so far as is practicable" and I expect the Department could come up with many other definitions that would not be as motherhood and apple pie as the definition the Minister has given. That is the crux of the problem. The definition is too wide open and, for that reason, it has to be opposed.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Thomas Pringle: ...of vulture capital, the financialisation of housing, speculative industries, outsourcing of social welfare services through programmes such as JobPath, the seductive corporation tax - of which the Apple affair is a case in point - and an encroaching private sector that has often compromised our health system. In light of this vulnerability, we need examine how we can make structural...

Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...cuts have had on workers and their families as their incomes have been reduced. However, in order to get the Government's attention should we be looking at the corporate welfare issue? The recent Apple tax debacle has shown that corporate welfare is something the Government really cares about. The only option for many people in rural areas of Donegal is seasonal and short-time work....

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Thomas Pringle: ...process by which we have arrived at this point. When one considers the Government's response to the European Commission's decision, it is clear we are all expected to don the green jersey and go out and bat for Apple because batting for Apple is batting for Ireland. In this regard, it is worth repeating a view expressed by many previous speakers. Who batted for Irish citizens during...

Corporate Tax Policy: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2015)

Thomas Pringle: ...our foreign direct investment missionaries to seek and find potential investors, paying for their journey to Ireland in the hope that they stay long enough to be noticed. Deals were made between Apple and the Revenue Commissioners back as far as the 1980s, effectively representing State aid for the multinational giant. Then we have the competitive corporation tax mantra, which the...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2012)

Thomas Pringle: ...job creation plans are being relegated to the subs' bench in favour of high-optic photo-calls of international announcements. Although all Members welcome the recent jobs announcements by SAP, Apple and other foreign direct investors, I have concerns as to the backbone of the job creation portfolio of this Government because it seems, in part, to be selective and it does not put the...