Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I hope Mr. Toland's optimism bears fruit. On the issue of crime, I note one of the inspectorate's recommendations at 1.3 is to establish a serious and organised crime unit which includes cyber crime, human trafficking and serious fraud investigations. I am very aware from a number of meetings with members of the fraud team that they would find it very difficult at present to get information out of NAMA. We understand there is a data protection issue around the personal and commercially sensitive information that NAMA would have. Given that we are depending on section 19, where members within the organisation would report wrongdoing when it happens, we suspect that section 19 is not being used and applied as much as it should be. The real evidence the Garda needs to follow up on a case is very often within the remit, and within the papers, of NAMA, but the actual getting of them is a major problem. There is a big problem in this area. We do not hold white collar crime to account very well. Has the inspectorate ever examined how we could make things stronger in this area?