Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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That is fine. The expected figure is €30 million. There are hundreds of millions piling up. The question has to be asked why some of these cases are not referred in the first instance to the An Garda Síochána white-collar crime squad to investigate. There has to be a quicker way of trying to get to the bottom of what is going on. When the report of the inquiry comes out – which it has in this case – if the white-collar crime unit wants to look at it, it can do that. However, is it the case that it should be the other way around? Is there a better way of doing these inquiries? My understanding is these are set up under the Department of Finance.