Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The directive relates to the fraudulent misappropriation or misuse of funding provided by the European Union. The Union is unlikely to provide money for projects outside its territory. In certain circumstances, however, it could provide for aid to be given to some country or region elsewhere in the world in which difficulties are being experienced. If there was a fraudulent misappropriation of such aid, then the issue which arises is whether European Union law or domestic law in a third country would apply. An issue could arise to which there is not an immediate answer because matters would depend on the background circumstances and on where the fraud was perpetrated and to what it related.