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Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: ...rights. To enforce your rights, to end poverty pay and precarious conditions, you have to get organised, join a union and fight back. Young workers are to the forefront of fighting back in Amazon, Apple stores and Starbucks, all of which have high concentrations of young workers. They are joining unions and taking on their employers on their pay and conditions. Young workers and women...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (15 Jul 2020)

Joan Collins: ...cases. All of that will come out in due course. This is about taxation and big corporates being able to pay their way to society rather than getting off with low tax on profits. While the Apple tax ruling today probably justifies the behaviour of multinationals and the Government in that they operated within their remit, it is immoral that a multinational with billions of euro paid...

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Joan Collins: ...the countries on its list have zero rates of corporation tax. While this is not the case with the four EU countries in question, when special deals and deliberate loopholes mean companies such as Apple pay an effective corporate tax rate of less than 1%, it equals tax haven status. There is no other way around it. When royalties constitute 26% of a country's gross domestic product in...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Joan Collins: ...tax set at a low rate of 1% would raise a minimum of €500 million per annum. These are the alternatives, the measures that would provide the funding needed to solve the crisis in housing and health without breaking the fiscal rules. Ireland has refused to take from Apple €13 billion in taxes which the European Commission determined we were owed. The Government is spending...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Motion (12 Apr 2017)

Joan Collins: ...to state about the principle of the polluter paying, how water meters play an instrumental role in the Water Framework Directive, etc. However, when the Commission tells us to accept €13 billion from Apple, we say: "We cannot accept that. We will go to the courts in Europe and we will challenge that." This happens with Apple, one of the biggest companies in the world, but the...

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

Joan Collins: ...says everything about the establishment mindset. This issue highlights the need for a clean sweep. One hundred years after 1916, what and who are we? A local activist in my constituency commented that we had gone from a banana republic to the Apple republic. We now need to build a movement for a new society for the proper establishment of the republic, modern democratic egalitarian...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jun 2016)

Joan Collins: ...and we have a different way of doing things. As has been pointed out in the debate, there are other ways to raise money to fill the fiscal space everybody talks about such as corporate taxation, the Apple issue and the potential bill of between €17 billion and €19 billion, NAMA and credit unions being able to provide funding of between €2 billion and €4 billion...

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

Joan Collins: ...and effective action to deal with what the Moriarty tribunal found to be systematic and endemic corruption. The words "systematic" and "endemic" do not mean a few rogue politicians or a few bad apples corrupting what is, in general, a clean system. They mean systematic and endemic. People are paying the price for that today, including those whose homes are flooded because they are...

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

Joan Collins: ...Irish arrangement by large multinationals has enabled them to pay little or no tax on sizeable profits. I will give some examples because such a statement should not be left hanging in thin air. Apple has three companies registered in Ireland. One of these companies, Apple Operations International, managed to channel $30 billion without making a single tax return. In 2011, Google made...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2014)

Joan Collins: ...forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions. There are many matters on which I and others on this side of the House support the Garda. However, there is no longer any point in stating that there are only a few bad apples. The Guerin report has indicated that the problem is much wider than that and I am of the opinion that we must deal with it head on. All gardaí will prefer...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Whoever wrote the Tánaiste's reply seems to have lost the plot halfway through. The fact of the matter is that Apple Sales International's returns in Australia show that it was able to cut its tax bill by availing of lower rates of tax on income, which was a reference to the 12.5% tax on corporate profits in Ireland. Something does not add up here. The Tánaiste cannot on the one...

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: Yes, Apple representatives should come before the finance committee.

Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2014)

Joan Collins: I have a number of issues I would like to raise with the Tánaiste but I will concentrate on media reports last week about returns by Apple Sales International which is the Irish subsidiary of Apple based in Cork. While Apple Sales International is an unlimited company in Ireland and is not obliged to make annual returns to the Companies Office, it is obliged to make returns in...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2012)

Joan Collins: ...water, we have witnessed the recent spectacle of the United Kingdom Prime Minister hosting £250,000 per head private dinners in his apartment at 10 Downing Street. This is not a case of a few bad apples in Ireland and elsewhere. It is a systematic, well-organised corruption of the democratic process by capitalism. It involves the capitalist class, big business and international finance...

Moriarty Tribunal Report: Statements (29 Mar 2011)

Joan Collins: ...-friendly environment - in other words, the light regulation and lower taxes on wealth and profit that were key factors in creating the present economic crisis. It is not just a case of a few bad apples. The system which allows and encourages corporate donations to parties and individuals, while it may be legal, is corrupting the political process itself. This is recognised in the many...