Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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77. To ask the Minister for Finance when the appeal against the European Commission ruling in a case (details supplied) will be heard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17797/19]

Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The Government profoundly disagrees with the Commission’s analysis in the Apple State aid case. 

An appeal is therefore being brought before the European Courts. Such an appeal takes the form of an application to the General Court of the European Union, asking it to annul the Decision of the Commission.

The Attorney General prepared the legal grounds in support of the annulment proceedings and the application has been lodged in the General Court of the European Union. As is normal practice, a summary of these have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.  They were also published on the Department of Finance’s website in December 2016.

The case has been granted priority status and has been progressing through the various stages of private written proceedings before the General Court of the European Union. The written proceedings have now concluded and while the timing of any oral hearing is entirely at the discretion of the Court, it may be the case that the appeal could be heard in the coming months.

It will most likely be several years before the case is ultimately concluded.