Ireland to ‘play its role’ in boosted EU budget but not at expense of corporate tax pot

Ireland might be willing to pay more into the EU’s next budget granted additional contributions don’t eat into the Exchequer’s corporation tax take, the minister for European affairs has said.

“There’s a whole range of different things, between enlargement, defence questions, climate, digital [to pay for],” Jennifer Carroll MacNeill told the Business Post in the margins of a meeting of Europe ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.

“We will look at the European budget and we ...