Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion
Ms Eadaoin Collins:
The ODCE has very good working relationships with the Garda and many other organisations. Memorandums of understanding are in place with some bodies. It shares a significant amount of information with the Central Bank, the Revenue Commissioners and the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority and those organisations have a very close working relationship. This can be done in Ireland due to our small scale. Large corporate crime agencies in certain other countries such as the United Kingdom operate on a far bigger scale and tackle very serious cases of wrongoing, whereas we work collaboratively within the existing structures and speciality streams.