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:
We have seen a wide range. I do not wish to refer to individual cases in case people are identified but, for example, we have seen civil servants, people whom one would think would be traditional and conservative, retiring and putting money from gratuities and so on into things like crypto. There have been tragic cases where people’s whole life savings have been put into them. It is not just the demographic referenced by the Deputy.