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)

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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We have been talking about APP frauds. As An Garda Síochána does not categorise the figures in the same way that the BPFI does, obviously there are some issues in that regard. When Mr. Kelly presents the figures, we may be able to delve through them. When we spoke about APPs, we were looking at about 3,600 transactions in 2021. If we look at unauthorised payment fraud, according to the BPFI there were 165,000 incidents in the first half of 2021. Surely to God that would mean there were probably about 300,000 incidents across that year as a whole. They are not all investigated, are they? They could hardly be investigated.