One in five crimes will now be solvable as a result of the DNA database, which is managed by Forensic Science Ireland (FSI).

“Uncharted waters” is how one senior garda described the situation facing the authorities in responding to Tuam.

Taxi drivers in Dublin are being asked to provide DNA samples as part of an investigation into an alleged rape.

The DNA database has linked more than 530 crimes to particular individuals in its first year of operation, official figures show.

Funding to boost staffing levels in An Garda Síochána and the Courts Service and to bring forward the construction of a new forensic science laboratory are contained in the Budget 2017 allocation to the Department of Justice.

Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald is exploring funding options which could bring forward the construction of a new facility for the State’s forensic science service.

A total of 215 previously outstanding crimes have been solved in the first six months of the operation of the DNA database.

The State’s forensic science chief has described as cynical the Government’s decision to delay funding for a much-needed forensic laboratory until 2019.

Ireland’s forensic science chief has warned the Government that the State faces the risk of “very large expense and untold reputational damage” from the collapse of a court case due to contamination of DNA samples caused by poor laboratory conditions.

Authorities cannot say they were unaware of the potential for catastrophe in forensic science as

The head of Forensic Science Ireland has said she is “not overly impressed” by the four-year wait for a much-promised new building.

A DNA database — promised more than eight years ago —will be up and running in the coming weeks, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said.

The State’s forensic science agency is in “crisis” in terms of its staffing and facilities, the head of the body has told an Oireachtas committee.

DNA profiles from two women killed in Grangegorman nearly 20 years ago were found on a jacket belonging to murder accused Mark Nash in 2009, a jury has heard.

A crackdown on market abuse by Britain’s financial watchdog that this week claimed a big name banker has sent a shudder through the City of London.

IN HIS dying days as Taoiseach Brian Cowen raised the prospect of 7,0000 new green-based jobs sprouting up in the IFSC within five years.

GREEN financial services has the potential to create at least 7,000 jobs within five years, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said yesterday.

IBEC and the IFSC have both weighed in on the debate over the prospect of Ireland having to raise its corporate tax rate in return for a bailout agreement, saying such a move would be “counter-productive” and “against basic EU policy”.

THE head of Germany’s Central Bank has expressed serious doubt over the potential effectiveness of the proposed European Stabilisation Fund, which is aimed at reducing future failings in the international banking sector.

Financial Services Ireland (FSI), the IBEC group that represents the financial services industry, today welcomed the changes announced by the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, to the duties payable on all bank cards and cheques.

Financical Services Ireland (FSI), the IBEC affiliated group which represents the financial services industry has welcomed the decision by the Minister for Finance Brian Cowen to appoint Pádraig Ó Ríordáin — managing partner at solicitors firm Arthur Cox — to lead the reform of Irish financial law.

Financial Services Ireland (FSI), the national financial services industry body, has today warmly welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin, to reform migration procedures.

Ireland’s immigration rules need radical reform to fast-track visa applications for overseas finance workers, it was claimed today.

FINANCIAL SERVICES IRELAND (FSI) yesterday called for the Government to put in place special migration policy measures for the financial services sector to allow non-EU nationals to enter the Irish labour market.

INTERNATIONAL financial services contribute €1 in €8 of corporation tax in Ireland, but complacency is threatening its growth.

INFLATION across the eurozone is unlikely to fall below the European Central Bank’s target rate of 2% this year, ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet said in Dublin last night.

Dublin: Financial Services Ireland (FSI), the IBEC-backed lobby group for financial services companies, has called for greater transparency on the costs of IFSRA, the financial services regulator.