Again, there's nothing particularly 'preferential' about Ireland's tax rates. Other countries, such as the aforementioned France, had much more preferential eff

Again, there's nothing particularly 'preferential' about Ireland's tax rates. Other countries, such as the aforementioned France, had much more preferential effective ones. The difference is that our rate is more transparent because the effective rate isn't all that different from the headline rate. So no, it wasn't.