Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Central Bank of Ireland
Ms Seana Cunningham:
I would not like to leave the Deputy with the impression that our work with CAB and An Garda Síochána rests with attending committee meetings. I personally meet regularly with An Garda Síochána on ant-money laundering, AML, as would many of the people who work in the anti-money laundering division. It is a close collaboration and it is certainly not limited to a committee meeting on a periodic basis. On our international engagement, the Deputy is right that AML is an international issue. We are part of the European Supervisory Authorities, ESAs, where we look at AML in a European context. We are attendees at FATF, together with colleagues from An Garda Síochána, the Department of Finance and the Department of Justice and Equality. We are very much part of the international efforts to look to improve efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. I hope I have been able to give the Deputy a sense of how we are working with An Garda Síochána in Ireland to do that.
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