Seanad debates

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

10:30 am

Photo of Rose Conway WalshRose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Fianna Fáil then told the company that took them from us that it did not have to pay tax for at least 20 years, just as the banks have been told now. People in County Mayo and rural Ireland who listened to that would ask what in the name of God is going on in terms of our natural resources and the tax avoidance. It is very clear from the Paradise Papers that the golden circle is absolutely still in operation. Fianna Fáil set it up and Fine Gael has continued on with it. The illusion that is given year after year that tax loopholes are closed down is just not true. The Leader should ask the Minister for Finance to come in here for a full and frank debate about our fiscal sovereignty, taxation and the tax loopholes that he is not genuinely closing. They are losing billions of euro to this economy while we have children with no homes to go to this evening.

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