Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Maeve Mullin:

“Yes” is the short answer. There does seem to be more proactivity coming from the UK financial institutions in this regard. In the Irish office, where we would come into that work is where, say, somebody has a dormant account in the UK, they have passed away, they do not have any next-of-kin in the UK, but it is known that they were Irish, or their parents were Irish. That is where we get involved in that research in that we are searching for Irish descendants of the person who had the dormant account or the safe deposit box in the UK. I do not know enough to answer the question properly but we can find out.

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