Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think Senator Gavan is leaving out how well resourced the Revenue Commissioners are. They pursue tax fraud and they are probably better resourced than the Department of Social Protection in pursuing social welfare fraud. This agency is only for one specific area relating to the Companies Act the Senator mentioned. The idea that came from the Law Reform Commission was to have an FBI-type of body, a single body to deal with white-collar crime, but since the Hamilton review it was decided to stick with different bodies, that is Revenue, the ODCE and the CCPC.