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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Speaking on local radio, Highland Radio, last week, one of the consultants at Letterkenny University Hospital stated the hospital has five intensive care beds, which is probably the number we needed about 20 years ago. A report done nearly a decade ago stated we needed over double that, yet that is still the position. The consultant explained what that means. When somebody is in a ward,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: God almighty, they want to meet the Minister.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Investigations (24 Oct 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I can only add to what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. It smacks of arrogance that the Minister, for two weeks in a row, has decided not to come before the Dáil and listen to what Deputy Mac Lochlainn and I have to say. It is not arrogance towards me or the Deputy. It is to the people of Donegal. It is to the people who tomorrow morning will still be in chairs or on trolleys in the...

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

Pearse Doherty: This question is for the witnesses from Meta and Google. How much money have the companies made on these fraudulent ads in the last year? The companies are obviously a net beneficiary of this illegal activity.

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

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but people have told me that if someone puts up a post saying "free Palestine" it is withdrawn by Facebook, yet ads that scam people are still up on the site, so the company does benefit. Is it not a fact that the company benefits financially from fraudulent activity, scamming citizens across the State? Does the company have a number for how much revenue was taken in 2022 from...

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

Pearse Doherty: It is not "there may be", there actually is a financial payment regarding sponsors ads. Is that the case?

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

Pearse Doherty: Does Meta have the actual number? The company has never calculated how much revenue comes in from fraudulent ads. Is that correct?

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay. Is there any chance that the company might do so and provide the information to the committee?

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

Pearse Doherty: Okay. The company could do so I presume, at least for the ones the company knows.

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

Pearse Doherty: Obviously it is a different jurisdiction but UK Finance represents 300 financial companies in Britain. It estimates that 61% of all authorised push payment fraud is connected to Meta and its online platforms, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Does Mr Ó Broin, accept those figures?

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

Pearse Doherty: That is interesting because we had the banks before us. Maybe Mr. Milton could explain this to us. What channel do the banks have to report fraud on social media platforms?

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

Pearse Doherty: Let us deal with Ireland here and say an Irish bank or financial institution suspects its customers are being defrauded. How do it report that to Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp? Let us take Facebook as an example.

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

Pearse Doherty: I have reported stuff using the three dots and I get a message back saying it does not violate blah, blah, blah. This is what Bank of Ireland told this committee: Like most users, when the bank identifies malicious content, we report this to the social media companies through the standard reporting mechanisms such as their online reporting forms or the report button on social media posts,...

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

Pearse Doherty: There is no understanding between social media companies and the banks on reporting fraudulent activity. Mr. Ó Broin could make the same point about me or my mother, who is 80 years of age. He could say that my mum should know how to contact the company because she can look it up on Google and find the address and send a letter. Surely to God, when we are trying to deal with scamming...

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

Pearse Doherty: I welcome that. Like the social media platforms, BPFI is in the country for quite a long time and so is Bank of Ireland, for a couple of hundred years, and AIB. I am sure the witnesses know their addresses as well. The CEOs came before us. This is word for word what they told us. This does not need a multistakeholder forum at this stage. BPFI represents the financial industry here in...

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

Pearse Doherty: In Google's reporting tools, and maybe Meta could answer this as well, can I write a couple of paragraphs in the reporting tools and explain the situation?

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

Pearse Doherty: I cannot for Meta because I am given a drop-down list containing options. If I wanted to say that a customer of mine had reported that he or she had been defrauded by a fake website advertising on Meta, I could not. I could only pick from a drop-down list of options. Could I give such information to Google?

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

Pearse Doherty: And how Google allowed it to pass all of its checks when “Dunnes Stores” was spelled wrong. The most basic thing we ask customers to look at is the name of the website. The site may have all of the relevant branding, but a letter could be missing from the name. Where this example is concerned, though, Google accepted the money, put the money into its bank account and posted...

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

Pearse Doherty: It was not picked up by human review. It was reported to Google. How many fraudulent ads has Google been made aware of by financial institutions in the past 12 months in Ireland?

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

Pearse Doherty: Could the witnesses supply them later or is it the case that Google would not have the figures because it does not know who is reporting the ads?