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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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Business of Joint Committee (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We will commence the meeting in public session so that we have our business properly done. The Minister of State is on the way. She has left a meeting in Government Buildings and it will be a few minutes before she gets here. We will suspend the meeting until she and the other witnesses arrive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Coveney. Today's meeting is to consider aligning disability funding with the UNCRPD. On behalf of the committee, I warmly welcome the Minister of State with responsibility for disability, Deputy Anne Rabbitte. I also welcome the officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Margot Loughman, principal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State. I call Deputy Tully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: Junction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: We are very tight on time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: To follow up on that, further to a letter from the committee about those grants that are under review, the Minister wrote a letter I will share with the committee over the next day or so. There is no need for the Minister of State to look at me so. There are a number of things. She said the section 39 organisations were paused in respect of the two sides coming together on it. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: -----care tested. The Minister of State might reflect on those issues, but alternative respite is something that should be championed in a major way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I take the point with regard to equine services and other services. Some of the service providers were able to access facilities heretofore whereby they were able to take families away for weekends or for two or three nights and build equine and other services around people. One of the service providers is developing a project whereby it has acquired extra land and wants to develop some of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Funding with the UNCRPD: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Sep 2024)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State and the officials for their contributions. I thank them sincerely for being here with us today. The battle is ongoing and we wish the Minister of State the very best of luck when she takes on the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and the Department of Finance in the coming while. If she needs us to make any public...

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...