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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Paddy Burke: The Irish authorities say that Apple was adhering to the letter of the law. If the Commission is successful in the appeal, how difficult would it be for the Irish tax authorities to collect the €13 billion from Apple? They believe they have complied with the law and the tax rulings. Would it be enforceable? Would the Irish authorities be able to enforce the collection of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Paddy Burke: When the Commissioner was here, she stated that the Commission sent out circulars to 19 other Irish companies with the same questions that it would have sent to Apple. The Commission stated that in the other 19 companies it has not found anything that compares to the Apple case. Have the Revenue Commissioners anything to say on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Paddy Burke: Was the guidance updated in 2014 because of the Apple case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Paddy Burke: If Apple was headquartered here, the €13 billion would relate to Ireland. Is that what Mr. Cody is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)

Paddy Burke: When the European Commissioner attended, she stated that, as a result of the Apple case, the Commission examined 19 other Irish companies and found nothing wrong. The Apple case was different. Would Revenue not have seen that difference as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paddy Burke: What about the 19 other companies the Commission has investigated? Were they just unlucky to be investigated by the Commission investigated because of the Apple case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: European Commissioner for Competition (31 Jan 2017)

Paddy Burke: Would the Commission have opened investigations into some of them if they had been similar or the same as Apple?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (8 May 2013)

Paddy Burke: ...first for Ms Geoghegan-Quinn as she was Ireland's first woman EU Commissioner. The Commissioner with responsibility for research, innovation and science is a key portfolio for the European Union. Apple founder Steve Jobs once said that innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. If we in Ireland and in the EU want to be leaders in the world of business, enterprise,...