Mr. Justin Kelly:

I will give clarity around that. We get two forms of reports. I know the committee discussed suspicious transaction reports, STRs, at its last meeting, which is one format. I think the Deputy is referring to the second one, which are reports under section 19 of the Criminal Justice Act 2011 which puts a legal obligation on people who know of a possible fraud to report it to An Garda Síochána. We get two streams of reporting. I know from the last meeting that the Deputy was interested in the number of STRs. In 2022, there were 47,421 STRs. To give an indication of where this type of activity is going, in the previous year there were 38,712 STRs. Looking at STRs, it is interesting that the new legislation that regulates this, the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act, came into force in 2010. In 2009 there were 24,000 STRs. A jump can be seen from 24,000 to 38,000 when the legislation came into force in 2010. That is the first reporting stream.