Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Mervyn Taylor:

My response is to complete my previous sentence. The Criminal Assets Bureau is one mechanism that can be looked at. If people are in receipt of money, they have to explain how they got it. The role of the person from whom the money is taken is secondary to the fact that the person is now in receipt of money. It is the same principle as what happens in some drug situations. There are different ways to tackle it. This brings to the fore the fact that this is not to do with social work or independent advocacy but rather with policing and forensic accounting. That is where we have agencies of the State, but we need to get them active.

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