Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent)
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154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total financial amount on both a daily and yearly basis, of EU fines being paid by her Department in 2022; if she will provide the corresponding figures for 2020 and 2021, including the specifics of each case in her Department. [56781/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that no EU fines have been imposed on my Department in either 2022 or 2021.

In 2020, one fine was imposed on my Department by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to a delay in transposing Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing. On July 16, 2020, the ECJ imposed a €2 million lump-sum fine for this delay. The Court accepted that the Directive has now been fully transposed by Ireland.