Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 19 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2018: Discussion

Mr. Brian O'Keeffe:

We have done that already this year. An operation called on assistance from the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau for resources, as well as for resources from around the country when we were effecting an arrest in respect of an ODCE investigation. I was seconded late last year and we have two detective sergeants and four detective gardaí who are attached and it is full-time secondment to the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement. I work very closely with the detective chief superintendent in the GNECB and if required, I assume that I will have access to extra resources if I can make the business case for it.