Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

This is a left field question in a small way, but in the anti-corruption, I am quite critical of how fragmented it has been over the years where, for example, white-collar crime has not been treated as seriously as it requires to be. We have the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, ODCE, for example, which will become new agency, the Corporate Enforcement Authority, CEA. There are members of the Garda embedded there and there is a memorandum of understanding to position members of the Garda within the new authority. There has been a great deal of criticism from the ODCE in respect of the non-provision of members of the Garda and delays in respect of inquiries, and so forth. This is an area of policing but it does not have the same kind of oversight. Should that area come under or is it even one that is considered to come in under the remit of the body such as the Policing Authority?