Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will conclude on this. The point that the Senator and some of those who oppose this are missing is that Apple, as Senator Burke rightly said, was going to appeal it anyway. What we must do is ensure that we have sovereignty and reassert our primacy in terms of our corporation tax by appealing the ruling of the European courts. First, the Commission has not published the full judgment. Second, it is quite clear that if we do not appeal it, we would be saying that we have been involved in illegal activity, which is what the Senator is accusing us of doing. We have not been. We are trying, as we have been doing for a quarter of a century, and for once-----