Bankers must be held to account

If we don't improve our enforcement regime for white-collar crime, we risk falling victim to further financial woe

Lucinda Creighton
Lucinda Creighton

Ireland has suffered the costliest banking crisis since the Great Depression, according to the IMF. This costliest banking crisis has resulted in improvements in the broader financial regulatory regime, but there have been virtually no reforms of our actual systems of enforcement where financial or white-collar crimes occur.

There is no point having robust laws if either the criminals know they are not being enforced, or if the resources for their enforcement are ...