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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 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.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on a humanitarian response to Ukraine will next meet. [22822/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [22821/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much money has the Government spent on the lawyers who are representing the Government in supporting Apple to stop the people of this country getting €13 billion in additional tax revenue? It beggars belief that the Government is backing the richest company in the world, a company that was paying less than 1% tax, in a case where it claims it was paying its fair share of tax, as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [22820/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In relation to children, I refer to a couple who have three children aged 16, 14 and ten years old. They have been homeless for two years. They do not want to bring their young children into homeless accommodation because they are terrified for them, particularly for their daughter, who they think would be very vulnerable. The children, as a result, are now staying their 72-year-old...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he can clarify (details supplied) in relation to the pension provision of CIÉ workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24547/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in the vacant homes tax to 25% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24057/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 243. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker is paid a minimum of €15 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24032/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 245. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of people working in the public sector earning less than the living wage of €15 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24034/23]