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It might be a common scheme, but it is still playing a game that doesn't reflect reality, but enables Google to evade taxation. Google didn't develop the technology in Ireland, and the subsidiary only exists to help Google evade taxation.
That's not so true of Google as it is of other brass plate companies. Apple and Google operate offices here, but there are lots of companies that have one or two staff on the rolls and just funnel the money through Ireland without doing anything.