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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I agree 100% with Mr. Kincaid. I refer to some of the activities and checks they have. I imagine they have some checks, but they are not robust enough if they are taking paid advertisements from scams. Just yesterday, I saw one about Gweedore. They were selling tee-shirts with Gweedore on them. That is my local town. Somebody posted underneath it saying, "Don't go near this; this is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I understand. That needs to happen with a bit of urgency and pace. Let us look at the scam that is probably the most costly to the victim, which is the investment scam. We have seen the stats that they have been increasing since 2019. We know that in some cases, people have lost more than €100,000 on them. We heard from the Garda, who gave an example of a civil servant who put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What if they do not claim to be regulated by the Central Bank? Is it not the case that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We know that these originate on online platforms. We understand that not all investment is regulated. However, at least some of these scams - many of them - would fall under regulated activity. What engagement does the Central Bank have with the social media companies and online platforms on the checks they need to put in place for hosting activity that is not only illegal but needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I do not expect the Central Bank to regulate the social media companies. Nobody is suggesting that. However, the Central Bank has adopted a silo approach to this matter. That needs to change. It is doing exactly what is set down in the context of its job and its role. It is scanning, looking, identifying and all the rest, but there could be a logical step, which would be to acknowledge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: With the modules, the committee is trying to hear from all different groups - the Department of Justice, the Department of Finance, the Central Bank, the Garda, the banks and the payments. I think every single person and every one of those groups wants the same thing that we do. We do not have a strategy, which is the problem. The Government does not have an economic crime strategy. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Commission is also proposing the confirmation of pay. I have been raising this matter for over a year now. Britain already has it. I think the Netherlands already has it. It makes sense. It is just a check on the IBAN, so that if someone is sending money to a particular number, it actually is Pearse Doherty, Johnny McGuirk or whoever it is. It seems to be effective. Obviously, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: My colleagues will be picking up on some of that. In discussing authorised push-payment fraud and the level of reimbursement, we do not really have accurate data across the financial system. We rely on the data we get from the BPFI which comes from individual banks which have different strategies. This might be a question for the Central Bank. The three main lenders all have a different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does the Central Bank have all the data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payment Fraud: Central Bank of Ireland (12 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Kincaid have any concern that the same companies the Central Bank is paying to carry their public awareness campaign, "How can I protect myself from financial services scams?", are actually benefiting from the financial scammers? The Central Bank paid €100,000 to online platforms. I commend the bank on its initiative regarding the scams they are trying to alert people about,...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is not true.

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: As my colleague has said, Fine Gael has been in power for 13 years. Since 2016 Fianna Fáil has supported Fine Gael through seven budgets. In that time one of the fundamental rights of citizens, the right to a home, has been eroded. The ability of young people to access secure and affordable accommodation has been chipped away. The aspirations of an entire generation to buy their own...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 3 o’clock Renters have been badly let down by the Taoiseach's Government. They are trapped paying sky-high rents and losing hope of ever owning their own homes. Earlier this year, the Government ended the eviction ban, despite all the warnings that this would push households into homelessness. When he lifted the ban, the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, promised to introduce some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach's approach here is one of shrugging the shoulders and keep writing the cheques with no one held to account. That is why the public are outraged when they see this and why they are outraged by what they are seeing unfold in RTÉ. It is that type of insider culture. At the very heart of this is 100,000 children who are on waiting lists. There are 290 children with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Nobody knows. That is the problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: How much extra is the board looking for?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Leanann an farce faoi ospidéal náisiúnta na leanaí. Ní féidir leis an bhord a insint dúinn go fóill cén uair a bheas an t-ospidéal seo críochnaithe agus cén chostas deiridh a bheidh aige. Níl dabht ar bith ach go bhfuil gá leis an ospidéal seo a bheith foscailte do leanaí na hÉireann. Tá cuntasacht de...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for the roll-out of at least 30mb broadband speeds to a location (details supplied) in County Donegal as part of the national broadband plan; if such areas with poor or no broadband coverage shall be prioritised during the roll-out phase as part of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (11 Jul 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance if both a timeline and more information can be provided for the new transport scheme for disabled people, which he mentioned in Dáil Éireann on 22 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33834/23]