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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)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is it a database of alleged fraudsters or a database of attempted fraud, if Ms Davenport knows what I mean?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: When Ms Davenport says "confirmed fraud", do I take it she does not mean somebody has been convicted for it?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Ms Davenport referred to secondary legislation going through the Department of Justice. I should know this. What is the legislation that would deal with this? Is there legislation in place at present that provides statutory protection?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: In effect, the data regulation Act does not currently permit the sharing of this information among financial institutions.

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

Jim O'Callaghan: The BPFI is seeking an amendment of the data regulation Act to ensure there is no doubt that financial institutions are permitted to share this information in respect of confirmed fraud. 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)

Jim O'Callaghan: Obviously, this is for the benefit of the public and also for the sharing of information among financial institutions. What institutions would have access to this information?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: If the Oireachtas is thinking of changing the law, generally at the forefront of our minds will be the interests of the public and consumers. Since so many people are the innocent victims of this type of fraud, would it be a good idea for the Oireachtas to introduce legislation that would provide for a mandatory redress scheme to allow people to reveal they were the victims of this type of...

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Can I take it that the BPFI is not opposed to this proposal but thinks it needs to be carefully considered?

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

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses.

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

Jim O'Callaghan: Is Ms Davenport aware of any convictions that have been given to date?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills is she will provide the number of special needs assistants in each county in the school years 2020/2021, 2021/22 and 2022/23, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25086/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Can they be accessed at present through Bookshare Ireland? Is that a mechanism of getting them promptly, or is that a different scheme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Regarding the books in Braille, who is the publisher? Are they published in Ireland, or how does a child gain access to them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am conscious that for a child to access the curriculum, they have to be able to read and understand Braille. I am sorry for my ignorance here, but who teaches the child Braille?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: With regard to training teachers for Braille, is it a case of a person who themselves is visually impaired then progressing to become a teacher of Braille for younger people? I am thinking of people who teach Braille to younger children. How do they get trained in that? Is it because they themselves had a visual impairment and they learned it? Is that how they became expert in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Mr. Mullaniff included a quote from a child who is visually impaired on the second page of his opening submission. The child said that "poor and ill-informed attempts at inclusion excluded me far more than my disability ever did". It might be difficult for our guests to read into what that child is saying but I interpret it to mean that there are well-motivated efforts to try to promote...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Needs of Visually Impaired Students: Discussion (23 May 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: Ham-fisted.