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Back up a bit boy.

The laws in which Apple paid the taxes aren't the same for all the other companies operating in Ireland or the EU. The Irish state made an exception for Apple in the way it paid tax. That's the problem, and that's wrong.

So there was no mistake. It was a sweetheart deal and both Apple and the Irish State are complicit in it. For it to be a mistake one party wouldn't know what was going on. They both knew.

Now, in Ireland the country isn't exactly flush with cash. There are people dying on the streets, people being made homeless daily due to lack of housing and there are regularly hundreds of operations cancelled daily because the health care system can't cope. The money that Apple didn't want to pay in taxes, the same amount of money that the Irish state doesn't want to take from Apple (think that statement through) would go a hell of a long way to rectify those problems.

The state owes it to it's people to get the money to fix the country. It owes an American corporation fuck all.