Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a few questions myself for the Minister, if that is okay. In respect of funding for regulation and the Corporate Enforcement Authority, it was recently reported that the authority expressed concerns to the Government that in the absence of a bigger budget to finance investigations into white-collar crime, its bark would be seen as bigger than its bite. The budget for this authority was increased by 25% to bring its funding up to €9.7 million. This is, however, over €500,000 short of the €10.265 million the authority has been seeking.