Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Justin Kelly:
Again, I do not have with me the figure for overall prosecutions. Our focus in the GNECB is on upstream prosecutions, by which I mean we focus on disrupting the activities of the gangs who are behind this. I am sure the Deputy will have seen in the media over the past six or eight months that there have been prosecutions under organised crime legislation and money laundering legislation of a number of key figures who are behind the groups. At my level, which is national level, that is where we our focus is. It is on disrupting the activities of these groups and preventing them from harming more victims. That is what we are doing.