Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

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

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2018 (Resumed): Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland

Mr. Kevin O'Brien:

There is no process within our mandate to take these and there is no complaints channel. Somebody might write a letter or there could be some other communication to the Central Bank but there is no set channel or process. I would use the term ad hocto describe them. We could come back to the Chairman to capture the extent of that more, but it would be quite infrequent and ad hoc. Our main focus is on the firms themselves. When activities of firms come into focus, as they can for moneylenders as well as other firms, we are not short in engaging with those firms, looking in detail at the communications and complaints they may have received from customers over time, but there is no automatic or set-out path for complaints to us from individual consumers.