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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There a formal platform for agencies to get together to discuss things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The main message from tonight is that that needs to be done. I appreciate there is a willingness to do that but it must be driven by Government. Passing the buck from the Central Bank to ComReg does not help us solve the problem before us and the problems that will exist in the future, particularly as AI advances and exposes more people to fraud.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has there ever been any sanctions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: No, not on that one but on anything else. With different engagement, regulators and so on, have social media companies ever been sanctioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand and will leave my questions at that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If I report to Meta today that money has been extracted illegally from me and a crime has been committed, what does Meta do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What is Meta's relationship with the banks then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Has there been any sanctions for payment regarding fraudulent advertisements to extract money from people, if advertisements are not taken down in time or if proper procedures are not followed in terms of applying that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the process for determining the appropriate amount of funding under existing service levels, ELS, as a whole and for individual Departments, including where budget deficits exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47037/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I would like the Minister to outline the necessary funding to maintain ELS to the assigned Departments, how it is determined and how much is needed for standstill costs, namely, those relating to demographics, inflation and other pressures. This is particularly important following the Government's decision to allocate far less to health to meet standstill costs than what seems was necessary.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ELS are extremely important. Let us be clear, we are talking here about the amount of money a Department needs to continue to provide services at the same level. If a Department is given the correct amount of money, it can stand still. Services will be maintained. If, however, a Department is not given enough money, one of two things will happen- either there will be cuts or the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: The summer economic statement outlined €3.2 billion in what are known as the budget decisions. Essentially, money was set aside to meet ELS and other existing commitments. On budget day, that had been reduced by €500 million. We have been given no explanation as to how this was possible or what was done. This is no way to manage a budget process. The level of transparency...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details on the level of engagement between the Office of Government Procurement and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, in respect of public procurement bid-rigging and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47038/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Could the Minister outline the level of engagement between the Office of Government Procurement and the CCPC regarding public procurement bid-rigging? The CCPC is the State body responsible for the enforcement of competition law. One of the areas most at risk from anti-competitive behaviour is public procurement, particularly with regard to large construction contracts that involve...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In July 2022, six Spanish construction firms were fined €200 million by the Spanish regulator for colluding on bids for public construction contracts. The Spanish state has banned these companies from participating in the public procurement process. Five of those Spanish companies have won public construction contracts in Ireland. What they did was essentially was agree who would...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I have. I will not read out the names here today. I will raise it with the CCPC because I have been looking at some patterns involving contracts that have been awarded here that warrant further investigation and explanation. I will not identify the companies, even though I have the details here. I cannot see how companies that were involved in bid-rigging in Spain and were fined for doing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the estimated level of capital expenditure as a percentage of GNI* for 2023 and 2024 respectively; how this compares with estimates in the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47039/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Will the Minister outline the estimated level of capital expenditure as a percentage of GNI* for 2023 and 2024 respectively and how this compares with estimates in the national development plan, NDP? The latter is a multi-annual plan and, as such, the Minister will agree that inflation, economic growth and GDP should be taken into account. It is important that we have effective and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As the Minister has said, the NDP was reviewed and the targets for capital investment as a percentage of GNI* were set in 2021. The revised NDP also set out departmental capital ceilings for 2025. In budget 2024, we saw the Government stay within those NDP ceilings. The 2021 targets set for 2023 and 2024 were 4.9% and 5.1% respectively, as the Minister has said. The Department now...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister and I understand that. We had issues earlier this year, however, with capital projects in education where the Government was forced to row back on the initial plans and to scrap a number of projects because the expenditure ceiling had been reached in inflation. This caused very significant distress to schools and to their communities who in many instances had been...