Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Law Reform Commission Report on Regulatory Powers and Corporate Offences: Engagement
Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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I thank Ms Justice Laffoy for her opening statement and for the work the Law Reform Commission is doing on the matter. We all want to get to the same place. The overriding question for me is as follows. Do the witnesses believe what is outlined in the report fills the gap, for example, between this State and Iceland where I believe 27 bankers were jailed? Are they satisfied that it would enable the same thing to happen here? Has the Law Reform Commission looked at what Iceland had, which we did not have, that facilitated that?