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

Jim O'Callaghan: If Google identifies a person who has bought an ad and who Google believes has been involved in some fraud on another person, where can Google report that or is that a responsibility of the victim of fraud who should be the complainant?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: For example, if an ad is put on Google, Google's verification process is not effective and the ad is advertising something that is a scam, a fraudulent sale or something like that, and if Google subsequently becomes aware of that, presumably Google removes the ad if it is satisfied that it is a scam. Is that correct?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Maybe Google feels it is not its obligation to do so but does Google report that to anyone? Are there jurisdictional issues with that? Is it the responsibility of the victim to make the complaint?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses. I will conclude by making a comment and I do not need anyone to answer it. My assessment of this issue is as follows. I am conscious that the organisations present are all enormous platforms that have global reach but I would have thought it would be preferable, from the point of view of the protection of the consumer, if it was possible that there was a universally...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of Vote 34 in budget 2024 providing the total capital and current expenditure for each individual programme within heads A, B, C, D, E and F; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45887/23]

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: At present, the world is a very dangerous place. There is a serious risk this could escalate further beyond the regional dispute we see in the Middle East. I know people may say it was a dangerous place 50 years ago or 100 years ago or further back, but in fact when we look at what is happening now, there seems to be an inability on the part of people to recognise that we have to share the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the officials for coming before the committee. I will not be keeping them long. Ms Conduit raising the issue with the UK situation and head 5 and how persons in the UK who receive a payment under head 5 may lose some of that because of the pension or social welfare rules there. Have there been any previous examples where our Department of Social Protection or the officials'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. It was brought to our attention yesterday that the rules - I think it may be a statutory instrument in the UK - certainly disregard any income a person receives if that person has been the subject of historical institutional child abuse in the UK and received money to that effect. I would have thought there would be some form of sympathetic response from the UK in any event. Does Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the role Sage Advocacy is going to play, it appears there is not going to be any specific statutory provision dealing with a professional advocacy group. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay. Will it have responsibility for identifying people in the UK as well or is that going to be given to some other body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: People will obviously have been identified as having been in institutions, but what does Ms Conduit see the role of Sage Advocacy as being? Is it assisting people with the process or is it making people generally aware it is there for them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I know what Ms Conduit means. It is about facilitating people in going through the bureaucracy of the State. Presumably, Sage Advocacy will be able to assist people even if they are the UK.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: All right. As a final point, in head 12, I think, the records of the dissolved body now come under the ownership and responsibility of the Minister. Do they go to the National Archives or what happens to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Thus, in years to come people will be able to do research on them or access them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Okay, so they probably will not be of that much academic interest.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chairman.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Oct 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 127. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what steps he intends to take to expedite the applications for work permits in the processing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45507/23]