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CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

David Cullinane: This is one of these extraordinary scandals where the Government has thrown out more red herrings than the amount of euro in that bank account holding the Apple money. The Government hides behind the notion that we had to fight the good fight for Apple because of the jobs. This was a special tax arrangement that was put in place for one company. It is about tax justice and every company...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

John McGuinness: I welcome this debate. I hope it is just one step in an analysis that should be undertaken by the Oireachtas of how we arrived at the point where this country lost the case. Now we are collecting billions of euro in unpaid taxes. Equally, I ask that the Oireachtas finance committee be privy to the thoughts of the Government as to how it intends to spend this money. It is important in...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome back the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and all our colleagues after the summer recess. I hope and trust that people had a nice break and I look forward to working in the term ahead, however long it may last. I also welcome the opportunity to examine the implications of the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision in the Apple state aid case. In the first instance, it is...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: Sanity has prevailed and Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Independents have been stopped from giving away €14 billion of taxpayers' money. In 2016, the European Commission concluded that Ireland had granted illegal state aid to the Apple group and awarded Ireland billions of euro. That should have been that, but it was not. This was our money. I have never in my...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Chris Andrews: After a decade of Fine Gael in power with the support of Fianna Fáil, the Labour Party and the Green Party, we must ask what their legacy is after all these years when it comes to supporting local communities in the inner city of Dublin. What real change can be seen on the ground, because when it comes to supports and community services, all that can be seen is years of neglect? ...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome these statements on the Apple state aid case and the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in favour of the European Commission. It is deeply regrettable, however, that the State spent eight years fighting the Commission's ruling of 2016 and putting corporate interests ahead of the public interest. That is almost a decade lost, and €13 billion could have been...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: I recall in November 2016 that I was an MEP when the Fine Gael Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, attended the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee. I asked him about the so-called double Irish, one of the many practices that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael had created to allow the wealthiest corporations in the world avoid paying their taxes. The scheme at...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The Apple tax scandal brings the dreadful decisions taken by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael on behalf of the people into plain sight. First, to facilitate one company making a profit of €104 billion without paying any corporation tax is reckless on a global scale. What kind of a show was Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael running that allowed stateless companies with no tax residence...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: As soon as the Apple judgment was announced, we in Labour called for statements and a debate in this House on this very important matter. The position is now final but it is disappointing we do not have enough time to debate this very important issue and the ramifications of it. In summary, the ECJ has found that a tax advantage provided to Apple by way of the 1991 and separate 2007 rulings...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the judgment. In future, I hope the Minister will listen and take heed of what Teachta Doherty is telling him because once again he has been proven right. He was not alone. The Government was warned repeatedly that the inevitable outcome of its challenge would be this money being returned to the State. The reputational damage done by the wrong-headed Government, with the support...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome young Reese Ward, a primary school pupil from Letterkenny who is here interested in this debate because this is about all of our futures. I am sure that if Reese was looking at a parliament anywhere else in the world, he would be waiting a long time for a finance minister to get to his feet and tell the parliament that he is disappointed that the state is to receive €14.1...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: That is crazy.

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Jack Chambers: As Deputies will be aware, in order to comply with the 2016 decision of the Commission, while the litigation process was ongoing, in 2018, the state aid identified by the Commission was placed by Apple into an escrow fund, with the proceeds to be released only when there had been a final determination in the European courts. A detailed confidential legal document, the escrow deed, was agreed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I say to the Taoiseach that there are no red lines for Israel. There is no atrocity it will not commit or horror it will not perpetrate. The latest one is by any definition an act of reckless, murderous state terrorism. This is the evil genius of getting thousands of pagers and putting explosives inside the pagers and then simultaneously detonating them all over Lebanon and parts of Syria....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Matt Carthy: As we sit here, bombs are exploding across Lebanon. They are exploding in supermarkets, offices and cars and they are indiscriminate in the taking and injuring of life. This is clearly a strategic move on the part of the Israeli regime that is designed to escalate the conflict more widely and, crucially from its perspective, to bring the United States directly into the conflict. I can only...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: Aontú has long been calling on the Government to introduce a common-sense migration policy. We want one that determines who needs help and who does not, and to do so in a speedy fashion in order that decisions can be made about whether people can stay in this country or are returned. We have been raising that information for the past two or three years yet the EU migration pact was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank colleagues for raising this first issue. I am conscious as we are sitting in this House and in the time since I have come into this House, there have been significant further developments and escalations in Lebanon with the explosions the Deputies have referred to of walkie-talkies. This follows on yesterday from the explosion of pager devices. This situation should be utterly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

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Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (18 Sep 2024)

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024 without amendment.