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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the sharing of the information purely just slowness on the part of this institution in changing the law?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there any resistance to bringing this legislation in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, so it is going to happen. In terms of the international comparisons, is any place doing well on all of this stuff? Deputy Doherty made reference earlier to other places having strategies in place and being more advanced. Are there any examples of people who are clamping down successfully and effectively on this stuff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, I get that, but is there anywhere that is really good?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was struck by the figure of 80% originating online. My very limited experience of this is seeing stuff in my emails that immediately looks like a scam, something pretending to be from the Bank of Ireland or some other institution offering an attractive investment. I do not even open those types of emails. The witnesses also made reference to advertisements for holidays. Is that the sort...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given how profitable these companies are, they should be contributing some of their resources to preventing this happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ms Davenport said that defrauded moneys are being disbursed across multiple bank accounts. In most countries in the world, it is hard, and getting harder, to set up a bank account. I discovered that to my cost when I had to move from Ulster Bank. It was an absolute nightmare. Is it the case that the bank accounts to which Ms Davenport has referred are in jurisdictions where there is much...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has read the recently published report on the section 481 film tax credit produced by the Budgetary Oversight Committee, particularly its recommendations that vindication of the employment rights of film crew under fixed term workers legislation, and the I.P rights of performers under the copyright directive, be fully...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will agree to an all inclusive film industry stakeholders forum, as recommended by the recently published budgetary oversight committee report on the section 481 film tax credit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23580/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is going to request a further increase in the proportion of GDP that is spent on arts and culture in the forthcoming budget to progress towards the EU average of 0.6%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23583/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to report on the progress of the universal basic income for artists pilot scheme; if she intends to expand it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23582/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what he intends to do to ensure emergency accommodation is available for those who need it in their local particularly appropriate door accommodation for families and pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23568/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce legislation or regulations to ensure that the tenant-in-situ and cost rental tenant-in-situ-schemes will include first refusal for the tenant, the council or approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what actions he intends to take to reduce rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23567/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of making all public transport free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23797/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average unit cost of new electric buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23798/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the rural transport programme, including the cost of the programme and the annual capital investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual costs of PSO funding for all transport services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost in 2022 of providing funding across the country for safe routes to school. [23801/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of funding that was applied for the safe routes to schools programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23802/23]