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Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Jul 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...I know I will hear the cliché being trotted out that there is no magic money tree. I accept there is no magic money tree, but we seem to forget that when it comes to tax havens, such as what we saw with Apple today, the Cayman Islands, the double Dutch and, indeed, the Irish tax haven. The European Commission is floating other clever ideas, including a suite of environmental taxes...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...of jobs could be created if a publicly-owned building company was set up to construct the social and affordable housing we need. There is plenty of money available to fund programmes like these if only we had a Government that was not beholden to the rich. We could stop spending millions on legal fees to defend the Apple tax and could take back the €14 billion, for example. We...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...to increase social welfare, pay the Christmas bonus or honour the promises it has made to public sector workers, yet ironically it may be able to impose an increase in carbon tax and refuse the Apple tax. The Government is showing us that its interests are in stark contrast with what it says they are. On the question of a border poll, Lord Ashcroft's recent poll in the North was...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Statements (18 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...danger. If only we could get our hands on, for example, €14.3 billion, which is subject to a court case as we speak in Europe. I refer to money that is ours, that we were awarded, the so-called Apple tax. It has accumulated from €13 billion to €14.3 billion as it sits in the escrow account. We have spent more than €7 million on legal fees to defend this...

Climate Action Plan to Tackle Climate Breakdown: Statements (20 Jun 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...farms and that is exactly what is happening. In five years' time I have no doubt we will be sitting here saying we failed to reach our emission targets but Amazon will not have failed, nor will Apple or whoever else gets to build the data centres and use our water and natural resources. Sun, wind and wave are our natural resources. Just as in the past when Fianna Fáil privatised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: -----about what he is saying, but we all know he is not. He will be defending his position on the Apple tax rather than defending our front-line services.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...population that relies on them, I am proud to be so. The Taoiseach must feel ashamed to be a populist as he sits with the elite in Davos and defends the fact he is not taking the €13 billion of Apple tax. How popular is that? It is popular with multinational corporations that do not pay their taxes and with bankers but it is certainly not popular with the psychiatric nurses and...

Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jan 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...save by getting PRSI and tax money back from increased salaries. There are other choices the Government could make. The choices it has made have been detrimental to this country. One such choice was not to take the Apple tax money and to keep it in an escrow account. There are billions there that could be used to pay nurses. One does not have to look far for solutions or to see that...

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...lost the €20 billion that we cannot find from NAMA, as Deputy Wallace mentioned earlier? Are they the people in the financial centre on the docks who are insisting that we keep €13 billion of Apple money in an escrow account? The resources are there to look after everybody, but they are not being shared equally. The resources are there to look after the grandparents,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...is too late and that Ireland is a different country that does things differently and has a different culture. We do have a very different culture. We have had the biggest bank bailout in history and have refused the Apple tax that is due to us of at least €13 billion. I fully support Mr. Maye's contention that it is not too late and that we should look at this proposal. I...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach is spending money to protect the Apple tax from being taken back.

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...lives and are now being told that they are not worth a full pension and will have to accept less. It is extraordinary that we can pay millions of euro to lawyers in Europe so that we do not have to accept Apple's tax but we cannot look after our pensioners, those who worked hard for all of their lives. Many of the people we met outside the gates last week were testament to that. Not only...

Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...it on the basis that to get rid of it immediately would cost an extra €70 million and a further €200 million another year. In the name of God, people are watching us and they can clearly see that a State which has a problem collecting the Apple tax of €13 billion and which will pay money to lawyers across Europe to avoid having to take it, discriminates against people...

Topical Issue Debate: Television Licence Fee Collection (28 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...argument that we need to up our game in terms of collecting revenue is not acceptable because when one looks at what the Government has done in the Finance Bill and taxation levels from the likes of Apple, REITs, vulture funds and the construction industry which get away with blue murder in not paying their fair share of tax, one can see that the Government cannot justify loading it on to...

Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...in Europe. Bogus self-employment is rampant in industries such as the construction industry, where the State is actually losing hundreds of millions of euro a year that could be paid in PRSI contributions. The Government will not take the Apple tax or the proper corporation tax. The Government will not try to increase that pot for pensions that determines the benefits pensioners get....

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...a service that is paid for without allowing the private operators in on the act, and that is the very reason we said all of our essential services should be paid for through direct taxation. Where are we going to find more taxes? One word: Apple. It is all over the media tonight. The Minister for Finance has been told to take the money off Apple or we will be brought to court and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: Like in the case of Apple.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...the same outrage and energy to go after corporate fraud and tax evasion as it demonstrated in its campaign to go after social welfare fraud. Instead, it is spending millions of euro to protect the Apple tax owed to us. I am stating the obvious. There is less interest in collecting tax revenue from some sources than there is in hounding a certain set of welfare recipients that seem to...

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: One word - Apple.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach spoke about his meeting with Mr. Tim Cook of Apple. I understand he was reassured by the Taoiseach that Ireland's tax regime would remain at 12.5% for global corporations, despite incoming US President Trump’s intention of reducing the US corporation tax rate to 15%. I understand Apple indicated to the Taoiseach that if it should have to pay the €13 billion ruled...