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

I am not going to comment on the individual case. I know the Deputy is not asking me to do so but I just want to make that clear for the record. We will make sure the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement has enough resources to carry out its functions. One area on which we are in discussions with the Department of Justice relates to gardaí. We want to make sure that when this agency is born, if one likes, on 1 January 2022, that it is born whole and has sufficient numbers of gardaí and Garda staff. It has an extra €1 million this year and we have approved sanction for all of the additional 14 civil servants it requested. The Civil Service side is done. The Garda side will take a little more work because the Garda Commissioner obviously has many priorities to try to balance, but I think that will be essential.