The Finance Minister's to seek Cabinet approval to appeal a European Commission ruling that says Ireland must claim back taxes of up to thirteen billion euro from tech giant Apple.
It's published a finding saying Apple's tax treatment by Ireland was "illegal" and amounted to 'State aid'.
Sinn Féin says there shouldn't be an appeal and is also demanding a public inquiry into the issue.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager delivered her damning indictment after a three year probe into Ireland's tax arrangments with apple.
The commission says the "selective treatment" through two tax rulings for over 20 years allowed tax paid on European union profits fall from 1% in 2003 to just nought point nought nought five perrcent in 2014.
Finance Minister Michael Noonan says he disagrees profoundly with the Commission ruling, has spoken with An Taoiseach and will seek Cabinet approval to launch an appeal.
Sinn Féin doesn't want any appeal and says the decision should go before a vote in the Dáíl – Finance spokesman Pearse Doherty
The Party's also demanding a public inquiry into who facilitated this sweetheart deal with Apple and a trawl of arrangements with other multinationals to see if anything similar exists with them.
For its part Apple's accused the European Commission of threatening future investment and job creation in Europe and says it's confident of overturning the ruling in the European courts.
