Ireland: 'Measures to Enhance Ireland's Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework ('Ireland combatting white collar crime')

The Department for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, working with other Government Departments, has published a report titled Measures to Enhance Ireland's Corporate, Economic and Regulatory Framework (subtitled Ireland combatting 'white collar crime'): see here (pdf). The report contains wide-ranging proposals, divided into the following areas: (a) organisational and procedural reforms; (b) corporate governance; (c) enhancing the powers of the authorities to identify and combat economic and regulatory offences in the financial sector; and (d) countering Money Laundering and Corruption. Under (a), the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement will become an independent agency responsible for company law enforcement (the ODCE has welcomed this proposal: see here, pdf).