Companies avoid paying high corporate taxes in Ireland, are they really helping the Irish community with €33K!

(L to R) Helena Morgan, Corporate Development Manager, Children’s Fund for Health, Eugene O’Reilly, eBay GIVE Team, Hazel Mitchell, Site Director, eBay, Louise Phelan, Vice President of Global Operations EMEA, PayPal, Gillian Geraghty, PayPal GIVE Team, Tommy Garvey, PayPal GIVE Team and Ciara Hughes, eBay GIVE Team.

On 30 June 2015, PayPal and eBay (PayPal is an eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) company) announced that nine Irish charities will receive funding totalling over €33,000 from the eBay Inc. GIVE Foundation. The nine benefiting charities were all nominated by employees of PayPal and eBay, at their Blanchardstown, Ballycoolin and Dundalk offices, and their grant allocation was determined by the results of a vote carried out in PayPal and eBay. Almost 700 employees engaged in the voting process.