Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion with Department of Justice and Equality
9:45 am
David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The Commission has given as one of its reasons for bringing this in is that EU fraud is not a priority at national level and is not prosecuted satisfactorily by member states, including OLAF referred cases. The conviction rates have been uneven across members states and ranges from 20% to 90%, but Mr Munro states it is almost 100% in Ireland.
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