Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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It is very important that the Central Bank engages with the Department of Justice as well at an early stage. I am not telling Mr. Kincaid how to do his job but because the Department of Justice will have a key role in this, it is very important that the either the Central Bank engages with the Department or the Department engages with the Central Bank.
The witnesses said the Central Bank has good communications and a good relationship with ComReg. Never a day goes by without getting a text message, for example, asking you to send money to your kids or a text saying your friend is a spot of bother. What is ComReg doing to stop those text messages? At one time, it used to be a text message from a foreign country but now those messages are coming via 087, 086, 089 or 083 numbers.