Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 July 2013
301. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Finance the amount of corporation tax separately on trading income and on non-trading income that has been paid to the Exchequer by all manufacturers of prescription pain killer tablets in each of the past five years and the percentage of overall corporation tax paid by those manufacturers in each of the past five years. [35490/13]
View answerI am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that statistics are not available which would enable the information requested by the Deputy to be provided. Prescription pain killers are classified within the same economic sector as a wide range of other pharmaceutical products and could not be separately identified without conducting a protracted investigation of the Revenue Commissioners’ records with the commitment of significant resources.
