Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion

Mr. Ian Drennan:

Regarding the challenges, I will take the last one first. I will defer to some of my colleagues on the earlier questions. There will be some crossover in the challenges we face. The main challenges relate to the sheer complexity of what we do. Previously, certainly when I trained back in the day, everything was kept on paper. Everything is now electronic and there are many issues with legal, professionally privileged material being embedded within electronic data. There has been much litigation on such issues. Those are the kinds of issues we have to deal with daily. Returning to my dialogue with Deputy Lawless, those are the types of issues that we bring counsel in on at an early stage. I ask my colleague, Mr. Hegarty, to deal with some of the additional powers already in the heads of the general scheme. I ask my colleague, Mr. David McGill, to then speak about some of the other aspects that could, potentially, go into the Bill or certainly those to which we have given some thought.

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