Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion with Department of Justice and Equality

9:45 am

Photo of David StantonDavid Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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The Commission has given as one of its reasons for bringing this in is that EU fraud is not a priority at national level and is not prosecuted satisfactorily by member states, including OLAF referred cases. The conviction rates have been uneven across members states and ranges from 20% to 90%, but Mr Munro states it is almost 100% in Ireland.