David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their presentation and the important work they are doing in this area. Someone mentioned Global Witness. I read a book over the summer, Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption, by Mr. Patrick Alley. What is happening and has happened is unbelievable. I would recommend the book to anyone. I could not put it down because it was so powerful. The very bad stuff that is happening out there in the world needs to be tackled. In fairness, many governments of EU member states and so on are trying to tackle it, but the work of organisations like Global Witness and our witnesses' organisations is to be commended.

Ms de Barra mentioned something about which I was curious. She stated that informal work was where many rights abuses were seen. Will she expand on that point?