Does that justify them?
The one good thing was the reduction of corporate tax. Only thing wrong with it is that it is “harmonized” with what the other “big countries” of the EU want. (Those selfsame countries want Ireland to raise its corporate tax rate, after all.)
Nothing justifies government taking of money from citizens to exact measures for which it has no experience, no basis, nor any idea of what is correct.
A free peoples operating in an environment unfettered by a meddling, duplicitous government hooked on pandering to the leeches of this world, would correct the problem on their own in a free market.
Politicians always do the right thing, once all other options have been exhausted.