Mr. Niall Cody:

We have a lot of access to data. We look across the system to see where there would be information that would be useful to us in our business and we then seek to ensure that legislation is enacted to permit the exchange of that data. We treat data protection very seriously and in any exchange we engage with the Data Protection Commissioner and whatever body with which we are engaged.

Suspicious transaction reports come from financial institutions. We are one of the designated bodies they are required to report to. We analyse the reports and build them into our recording systems. In regard to the Criminal Assets Bureau, there are Revenue officials who are members of the Criminal Assets Bureau. We have people working as part of the Criminal Assets Bureau.