It sounds as though Bono has borrowed the Taoiseach’s scriptwriter:From RTE.ie:

Bono has defended the decision by U2 to move part of the band’s business from Ireland to the Netherlands to reduce his tax bill and the tax bill of the other band members.Bono was speaking at University College Cork, where he attended a meeting of the Irish Government’s Hunger Task Force, of which he’s a member.He said Ireland’s prosperity had been achieved through tax innovation and it would be churlish to criticise U2 for being innovative in relation to their tax affairs when that’s what people were encouraged to do and that’s what made the country prosperous.He said U2 paid taxes not only to the letter of the law but to the spirit of the law too