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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)

Steven Matthews: We should report it to the bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: So, essentially, we do not know how wide the net is or how fine the mesh in that net is. Everybody in this room could have received a text message this week, and nobody knows that, except the recipient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: We also do not know if there is a failure rate or mistake rate, as it were, of 1%, 0.5% or 0.1% of people who receive these message and click on them. We do not know the extent of the messages that have gone out, therefore we do not know that there is a very small number of people who click on these emails.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is when the banks are interested. It is like a bunch of burglars hanging around outside your door, and it is only when one breaks the door down that we record it and know that it is happening. It is about how to deal with the prevalence of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: This is my last question. At the moment, for any of us who resist the temptation to click on the message, do not fall for it or realise that it is a scam, there is no one entity that it should be reported to. It is only when it becomes an actual fraudulent unauthorised payment or mistake that it is reported to the bank. Aside from receiving the message, we do not have a reporting strategy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank the witnesses for their work on this and for their time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I know but if I have not used an app in the past year, I do not need it. It is gone now. If you delete an app that can trace and monitor your finger strokes or keyboard strokes, is it gone or is it embedded on the phone?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: How do they map them? You can still purchase a non-bill paying mobile phone number in Ireland. There is just a number, and the account is not associated with any address. I do not know what information a customer needs to go and buy one of these phones now. How are the fraudsters acquiring those mobile numbers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (24 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: Okay. That is where the customer has fallen through the first hole and has actually clicked on the message and is half way through the process. Some people probably pull back when they realise it is a fraudulent message, and others will go all the way with it. All of us are receiving text message on a weekly basis. Who is collating that information? Who knows that I have received five...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: We are discussing the review of part B (fire safety) of building regulations. We are joined today by Mr. Dennis Keeley, chief fire officer and Ms Mary O'Brien, assistant chief fire officer, from the Dublin Fire Brigade. I thank them for giving their time to us today and their opening statements, which we received in advance. By way of background, the committee has met a couple of times...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I am sorry but I must keep everyone to time because we only have a short meeting today. I call Deputy Higgins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will give two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I wish to be clear on the role of the fire service in regards to a planning application for change of use. A paper-based planning application is received. As part of that process, the fire service reviews the application and makes its views known to the planners. Is that the process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: The building control application process and the planning system are separate. Someone can have planning permission granted prior to the next step of building control approval and fire certification, but they are all needed before development can commence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: At the construction or completion stage, is it the architect who signs off on the building's compliance with the drawings that were sent in and on which basis the fire certificate was granted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: That is the BCAR system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I thank Ms O'Brien. I just wanted to clear that up. In his opening statement, Mr. Keeley stated that the building regulations were not prescriptive but performance based. What did that mean?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: That was a helpful explanation. The regulations are non-prescriptive, but the technical guidance documents set out how to achieve what is required by them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: When examining modern methods of construction and so forth, a couple of groups appeared before us. I found the question of who it was up to to decide changes in regulations confusing. If the Minister were to say that he wanted to permit medium-or-high-rise buildings in cross-laminated timber, CLT, the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office, NBCMSO, would have to formulate...