Ms Justice Mary Laffoy:

I thank the Chairman and the members of the committee. We are very happy to be here and we hope we will be able to assist the committee. I will introduce my colleagues. Raymond Byrne is the full-time commissioner in the Law Reform Commission. He was there throughout the work period which ultimately produced the report on regulatory powers and corporate offences, so he knows all about it. I only became president of the Law Reform Commission when the report was about to be published, although I had the honour of being involved in its launch, so I am relying on Mr. Byrne. Some of our researchers are here, namely, deputy director of research, Mr. Robbie Noonan, and two of the principal legal researchers who were involved in this report, Ms Leanne Caulfield and Ms Morgane Hervé.