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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhARhLx7kM
YouTube: Hugh O’Connell
TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY has said that the G8′s declaration that it will “fight the scourge of tax evasion” is something that Ireland can sign up to and has defended the country’s low corporation tax rate in discussions with world leaders.
Kenny spoke to the media following a working lunch meeting with members of the G8 this afternoon and welcomed the publication of the Lough Erne Declaration on tax evasion saying that while Ireland was not a member of the grouping it had “no problem in signing up” for the recommendations.
The ten-point document puts forward new measures to clamp down on money launderers, illegal tax evaders and those who avoid corporate tax.
The document states that “countries should change rules that let companies shift their profits across borders to avoid taxes, and multinationals should report to tax authorities what tax they pay where”.
Ireland’s tax regime has come in for scrutiny in recent months after revelations about the low level of tax paid by multinationals like Apple who use Irish tax rules to avoid paying more tax on profits in the US.
Asked specifically about this measure the Taoiseach said the document “is something that Ireland can sign up to” and later said that Ireland had “no problem” signing up to the measures contained in the document.
“Ireland will participate in the work and the consideration of what is the best thing to do here to deal with tax evasion, to deal with tax fraud and to deal with transparency,” Kenny said.
The Taoiseach also said that the issue of Ireland’s 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate did not come up during the working lunch but had been “referred to in the G8 itself” and he was able to “account for Ireland’s tax position”.
He said: “Quite a number of leaders were very clear to say that just because a tax rate is pitched at a particular level doesn’t mean anything other than that.”
You can watch more from the Taoiseach in the video above (Apologies for the poor sound quality towards the end of the clip).
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I’ll just Google how to bake bread.
@David Dickson: Irishtimes have a good article
@David Dickson: I already did this and now Google how to make flour.
@cortisola: how to lay an egg
My baking soda is best before 12/1982.
Should be grand but this hatching is tiresome.
@David Dickson: What came first David Dickson or the Egg?
That is the question!!
Is there anything else happening in the world the journal can report on? Most of us are stuck at home bored and we know it’s cold, there’s no transport and people have been stock piling bread. Surely there’s a Trump/Hicks story or it’s the Russians what done it that could get an argument going
@Anne Marie Devlin: Watch a movie, I recommend “cold skin”, lots of similarly bad weather. Snow, wind, isolation with a bit of fantasy thrown in for good measure.
@Anne Marie Devlin: I anticipate this new article 9 months from now. “Ireland sees population boom as number of births increase.” Lol
We need metro underground – maybe it won’t be that easy to disrupt by our common natural disasters?
@cortisola: metro in Rome closed due to snow. They’re not impervious to the weather.
@cortisola: Common? How often does this happen?
@cortisola: For sure. That’s the justification to spend the excessive budget right there. A blizzard of magnitudes not seen since 1982.
@cortisola: The Phoenix Park tunnel wasn’t even open this morning, don’t have much hope for them maintaining a metro.
@Ala Alowska: knew you’d be too stupid to get it!
@Paddy Reid: Metro in Strabane still operating. Lifford bus stalled at the Camel’s Hump.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: I wont be surprised to hear Irish pubs in Sydney closed due to blizzard in Dublin…
@Paddy Reid: New York subway closes due to snow. Obviously not the underground portion but the majority of the network that’s overground does.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Snowstorm-Blizzard-Thursday-NYC-Tri-State-Mass-Transit-Subway-LIRR-Metro-North-NJ-Transit-NY-NJ-467921183.html
Anyway Metro is coming…….
@joe: I lived in New York for 2 years and that happened once when I was there and there was a hell of a lot more snow.
@Seamus McGillicuddy: It happened in January this year also as per that article. How do you know there was more snow. It hasn’t even come yet!
Luas,DART and trains running yesterday and this morning. They have stopped as a coordinated effort to keep people safe. I’m sure they could keep running if requested to.
They closed schools expecting 4-6 inches of snow. We are expecting 7.5- 15 inches!
And the taxis keep rolling untill every one is home safe, while the buses just jump ship. They should of kept going until 3:30 4. No buses in Galway all day.
@brendan H: taxi can be controlled a bit easier than a bus if it hits a dodgy patch of snow/ice. Also, less risk of injury in a taxi than a bus full of people… Use your head Brendan.
@Alan Madden:city Buses are all on cleared gritted roadways, there was no ice or snow in Galway city at at even 6pm. USE Your Head and read comments carefully.
Eh my flight is getting to Dublin airport tomorrow at 2pm, it’s not cancelled or anything. So how will I get from the airport. Now this is quite interesting
@Krystian Brzezowski: not as interesting as if you try to walk.
@Krystian Brzezowski: roads at the moment are perfect in Dublin. If planes can’t get out of Dublin, don’t know how you’ll get in
Thank Chroissssst. Hopefully, that will keep Bono out for a day or two. I’d rather have a plague of locusts.
Dublin airport are all flights from 4pm.
Why did they cancel the morning flights.
Thank god for common sense of most airlines. However I was due to be in the airport tomorrow with 31 students for a school tour to Iceland. It took us until 3.30pm today to convince wow air that there was even an issue in Dublin airport. Then they told us our flight would still depart at 10.45 am Friday and we’d find out 2 hours before if it was cancelled. Our bus driver said he wouldn’t bring us to the airport due to the warning (which is fair enough). We have finally gave out enough (teachers parents and travel company) that they may now be willing to reschedule our flight. But this has been on going since midday today. I would warn anybody flying with wow air of their poor customer support. My colleague was left on hold for over 30 minutes on numerous occasions since last night.
If we ever have a crisis ..were doomed.. snow and the hole place comes to a stop..
So, we are going to fit a day and a half into a single afternoon. You have to tell me how it’s done.
@Ben Gunn: Put your head between your legs and follow your nose, Ben.
Lots of Flights from Dublin cancelled today, weather ok so far.
@Benjamin Dolan: It’s closed from 4pm in anticipation of zero visibility and poor weather. Snow clearing and de-icing takes time so airport can’t operate at full capacity. They could run all flights with delays but that would lead to flights later in the day being cancelled. I assume they cancel flights to cities with multiple flights a day and hope that free space on later flights can take up the slack.
Also fligths to busier airports have tight windows that they have their slot for. If they miss this they may not be able to land at their destination.
Anyway all that to say that the cancellations this morning were probably more likely as a result of delays and missing time slots than planes not actually being able to leave.
@joe:
Ok Joe that make sense thanks for your reply
It better be bad LEO, you’ve closed the country down. Teachers closed schools
And teachers closed the country as well.
God help Ireland if it ever has an emergency.
IRELAND led by a wimp.
Why do you keep saying the “entire “ county? Please make an effort and check Met Eireann
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