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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: 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: ...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 approach when reporting fraud to the Garda. Bank of Ireland reports everything. AIB only reports the bits it is liable for. That is crazy and does not make any sense whatsoever. I would ask the Central Bank, as regulator of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Department held it. In this day and age, why are these reports not being sent to the Garda? Why is there a different approach? We do not have many big institutions here, unfortunately. Why is it that one of two main lenders states it reports all cases of fraud to the Garda while the other states it does not, yet the latter runs advertisements asking people to report these crimes? It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...is not directing the banks but simply saying to them, "For God's sake folks, report the fraud". They have the information, they know a fraud is being committed and they should pass it on to the Garda. They should not only do it when they are losing money. There are countless thousands of other people losing money and their cases should be reported as well. The banks have the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported cases made to An Garda Síochána with respect to financial fraud; the number of cases investigated with respect to same; the number of cases closed with conviction with respect to same; the value of money recovered with respect to same in each of the years 2016 to 2022; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jun 2023)

Pearse Doherty: 245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of reported cases made to An Garda Síochána with respect to authorised push payment fraud; the number of cases investigated with respect to same; the number of cases closed with conviction with respect to same; the value of money recovered with respect to same in each of the years 2016 to 2022; and if she...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...understanding on what happens when somebody is a victim of an APP fraud? The BPFI told us that 3,967 transactions were affected by APP fraud in 2021. Was each one of those transactions reported to the Garda Síochána?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is obviously massive. It is great news for the person who is committing this crime because, obviously, 700 cases where there were victims are not being investigated by the Garda, if it does not have the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Do the financial institutions not have automatic reporting to An Garda Síochána? I dealt with this matter previously in the context of a different committee. If someone is aware of a crime being committed - as far as I know, it is under section 10 of some legislation, but I stand open to correction - it is an offence not to report that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Significantly bigger. They are not getting that money back from the bank if the culprit has moved it on. The Garda receives approximately 1,000 reports per month or 10,000 to 12,000 per year. Is each of those cases investigated? Does An Garda knock on the victims' doors and question them? I am genuinely trying to figure this out. I know if I reported to An Garda Síochána...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: -----but the bank comes forward to the Garda. When a bank notifies the Garda, does that trigger a Garda investigation into that individual having been defrauded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What happens in that context? Does the Garda call that person? Does it need that person to come forward themselves or is it able to trigger the investigation in any event? What does it do? Does it make contact with the individual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: In all cases where the victim has been robbed as a result of fraud, is there an investigation when the Garda is notified by the banks, and are the victims in all cases contacted by the Garda? I ask because many people are victims of fraud online, have lost thousands of euro and have never been contacted by the Garda. That is my understanding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Not all reports that the Garda receives of suspected section 19 violations are investigated to that level, however. It deciphers and determines that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I know for a fact that they are not. I accept that there is a lot of this crime and the resources of the Garda are extremely stretched in respect of it, but I am trying to figure out where it stands. How many section 19 notifications were there in, say, 2022, how many victims did they relate to and how many victims were contacted or not contacted by the Garda during that period? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Garda provide statistics it has for the value of these types of crimes, such as romance fraud and so on? I am sure it knows the number of victims relate to them and the number of prosecutions that arise from them. Can that be provided to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...a couple of years ago but it still is not there. How can the Department justify this not being given priority at a departmental level? Furthermore, the banks are looking to share data to assist the Garda with what it is doing to deal with issues in real time, yet the shared fraud database is somehow, we understand, being frustrated and prevented from coming into being by the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: ...couple of thousand euro for being a money mule that they will be apprehended, prosecuted and sentenced. It might also alert people to some of the scams. I still do not understand the call by An Garda Síochána for people to come forward. I echo that call but is An Garda Síochána prevented from investigating even if people do not come forward? Mr. Kelly referred to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Okay. In all cases where the bank has identified the fraud, it reports it to An Garda Síochána and there is no requirement on the individual to make a report or on An Garda Síochána to investigate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Authorised Push Payments Fraud: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Pearse Doherty: We have been talking about APP frauds. As An Garda Síochána does not categorise the figures in the same way that the BPFI does, obviously there are some issues in that regard. When Mr. Kelly presents the figures, we may be able to delve through them. When we spoke about APPs, we were looking at about 3,600 transactions in 2021. If we look at unauthorised payment fraud, according...