Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Ryan Meade:

I might jump in there to reinforce what Mr. Irwin said. We gave an idea in the opening statement of the scale of policy enforcement we take in respect of ads. A large volume of ads get disapproved for different policy reasons. In some cases that is because of misrepresentation, so that might indicate that the ad is potentially trying to lead someone into a fraud or scam, but it is important to note that in those cases we do not know that that will be a fraud or scam. The only visibility of that part of the chain is where it is taking place on a Google surface. Given the scale of policy action we have taken and the priority we put on trying to ensure this material does not appear to users in the first place, it is not a routine matter to report each of those instances because that would flood any agency with information that would be of limited use.

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