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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps this is a policy question. It has often struck me that it would be far better if public money was used to own. We get 10% or perhaps 20% of new private developments. The ISIF is involved in some of those. Would it be a good investment or could the ISIF make an investment decision for us to own 50% or 70% of them? That would also potentially mean we could control rents a little...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a policy matter.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (24 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, there are some areas where it is a little bit blurry. Mr. Ashmore has said the NTMA is somewhat involved in social housing, such as in the case of Part V provision. I am wondering about that. Does the NTMA approach possible partners or do they approach it? How does that work? How does the NTMA decide what businesses or-----
- 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 have a lot of sympathy for that last point, and the desire to torture a human being in person. I thank the witness for the very informative, educational contributions because it is all new to me. There is so much jargon that my head is spinning already. I will try to understand a little bit more with a few questions. For the authorised push payments, do people get reimbursed currently?
- 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: For the idiot's guide, as it were, why would a person not get reimbursed? What are the circumstances that determine whether a person gets reimbursed or not?
- 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: That is the difference? Okay.
- 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: In the unauthorised push payments, regardless of whether the money is gone at the other end, the bank reimburses. Is that the case?
- 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 will catch up with a full understanding of it. The reason, in authorised versus unauthorised payments, banks do not automatically make the reimbursement is because they are in a way saying that there is a bit of culpability on the part of the person because they did authorise the payment, even if the person was defrauded and they did it believing this, that or the other. Is that...
- 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: Just so I understand, I gather from Deputy Doherty's earlier contribution that in the UK, it happens in either case. Is that correct?
- 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 Foreign Affairs and Trade: Legislative Programme (24 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to bring forward the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 to Third Stage in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25137/23]
- Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The hate, fear and division the far right is peddling and trying to direct against vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees is utterly despicable, all the more so when one thinks that, for generations, hundreds of thousands of Irish people who emigrated, often illegally in the case of the United States, suffered the same kind of racist and horrendous victimisation. No dogs, no blacks, no...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was an absolute disgrace to leave hundreds of asylum seekers vulnerable under tents on the streets. I welcome the proposal to look at the issue of empty buildings, something for which we have called for a long time, including office buildings that are not being used. I draw the Taoiseach's attention to the fact there is an empty office block on Setanta Place, just off Kildare Street,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have two minutes.