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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Tá muintir na hÉireann ag tabhairt ar na sráideanna agus tá siad ag éileamh ar an Rialtas beart a dhéanamh le dul i ngleic leis na fadhbanna móra ó thaobh na géarchéime costais mhaireachtála. Má dhéanann an Rialtas praghsanna leictreachais a ghearradh go dtí an leibhéal a bhí siad roimh an ngéarchéim...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) from County Donegal can expect a date for a driving test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driving test date will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a family (details supplied) in County Longford can expect a date for an inquest from the Coroner’s Office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46165/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Before we go into some of the specific areas regarding banking in the Minister's opening statement, I mentioned at the banking forum that one of the areas the State needs to get a grip of is the issue of financial fraud, which has absolutely exploded in recent times. If the trend continues, it poses a real issue for the State and for banking services. In the Minister's view, does the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I do not have a specific issue because this is not just happening to one individual; it is happening to thousands of individuals. Tens of millions of euro are being conned from customers every single year. There was no financial fraud strategy here until last year. The Hamilton report made it very clear that there was no strategy in place. The Department of Finance is now a part of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I am sure there are few people in this House who have not got a notification from their bank on their phone to say that an attempt was made to pay for a holiday or product that they were not involved in and that it has stopped it. The banks are working on this, but I am talking about figures about where fraudsters have been successful. The success rate of fraudsters has increased 51% year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to give me an example of what is being done to allay the fears of a customer who is getting messages on his or her phone asking him or her to click into something and put in PIN details. What will this directive do in relation to these thousands of successful instances and tens of thousands of attempted instances on a monthly basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: How would the Minister assess the Government's success or failure in combating financial crime and fraud?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: A recommendation which came out of the plan was that there should be a multi-annual strategy to combat economic crime and corruption and an accompanying action plan. Was that published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, combating economic crime and corruption. It came out of the Hamilton report recommendations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

Pearse Doherty: I ask the Minister to follow up with the committee on that because public consultation was supposed to happen. It was not a secret document or anything. We need a cross-governmental multi-annual financial crime strategy and the Department of Finance should be at the heart of it. It needs to include our online agencies, banking representatives, the Garda and the Department of Justice, but I...