448. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has considered whether the Consumer Protection Code or other financial regulatory frameworks should be updated to provide explicit standards governing the use of facial image capture and facial biometric technologies by regulated financial service providers, including standards concerning transparency to customers, consent mech…
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106 questions from 25 TDs, between 29 May 2025 and 6 October 2026.
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104 written, 2 oral
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449. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department or the Central Bank of Ireland holds data on operational incidents, data protection incidents, or consumer complaints reported by regulated financial service providers relating to the use of facial image capture or facial biometric processing technologies since 1 January 2023; if so, the number of such incidents by year and gen…
314. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total loss or profit made by the Central Bank on the disposal of a building on Spencer Dock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18053/26]
397. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance for an update on the timelines and processes for appointment of the next Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. [15126/26]
478. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is implementing the recommendations of the Report on the Israeli Bonds Programme, eleven of which relate directly to obligations under, and due diligence in respect of, international and European law, from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Di…
72. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance his views on the Central Bank’s decision to proceed with the Israeli Bonds Programme (details supplied); his views on the Central Bank’s role in facilitating the transfer of bond approval to the Commission de Secteur du Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg to ensure Israel’s continued funding of genocide; the specific steps he will take to ensure the Cen…
223. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Government and the Central Bank are acting in accordance with the recommendations set out in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Services Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach’s Report on the Israeli Bond Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1005…
409. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to establish the reason the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), in violation of international law and in direct breach of the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee Report on the Israeli Bonds Programme, transferred, on Israel's request, the Israel bonds prospectus to the Commission de Secteur du Financier in Luxembourg, …
431. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to end the Central Bank’s facilitation of the sale of Israeli bonds in the EU, given that the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach, in its report on the Israeli bonds programme, published on 5 August 2025, unanimously found that these bonds assist the f…
179. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether there is an appointment of a new Governor of the Central Bank and if a process for this appointment has been designed yet; if so, the details of this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9049/26]
180. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland requires regulated financial institutions to notify it where multiple legal claims involving materially similar facts or customer cohorts are settled on a confidential basis; if so, the notification mechanism and thresholds which applied; and if not, the way in which the Central Bank is assured that such settlement…
181. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of occasions since 2019 on which the Central Bank of Ireland has required a regulated financial institution to extend redress beyond individual litigants to a wider customer cohort following the outcome of litigation or confidential settlement; and the statutory or supervisory basis relied upon in each case. [9061/26]
182. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland maintains internal guidance, criteria, or decision-making frameworks to assess when repeated settlements or litigation outcomes indicate a breach of the "stop the harm" principle; and whether he will publish the headline principles of any such framework in the interests of transparency. [9062/26]
183. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance to provide a sectoral breakdown, for each of the past five years, of anti-money laundering and know-your-customer supervisory inspections carried out by the Central Bank of Ireland, distinguishing between credit institutions, investment funds, fund service providers, and other financial institutions. [9063/26]
184. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of supervisory findings, remedial directions, or enforcement actions issued by the Central Bank of Ireland since 2019 which involved deficiencies in the identification or verification of ultimate beneficial owners; and whether such deficiencies arose more frequently in any particular sector. [9064/26]
185. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland collects or analyses data on the frequency with which regulated firms rely on third-party customer due diligence under section 40 of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010; and whether any supervisory concerns have arisen regarding delayed, incomplete, or inaccessible underlying be…
186. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland requires firms relying on third parties for customer due diligence to conduct periodic assurance testing to confirm that full underlying documentation can be produced without delay; and how compliance with this requirement is monitored at supervisory level. [9066/26]
187. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland has identified any instances where reliance on intermediaries or professional advisers has resulted in delayed identification of beneficial owners or incomplete source-of-funds verification; and whether any thematic reviews have been conducted in this area. [9067/26]
194. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 230 of 29 January 2026, if he will confirm that neither his Department or the Central Bank collect data on special purpose vehicles whose primary economic activity is purchasing and owning commercial and residential property, as this is not at category in either the statistical publication or the registration …
195. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 231 if he is aware of any engagement between the Central Bank and national competent authority in Luxembourg, Netherlands, Cyprus, Germany and Jersey in relation to macroprudential measures for property funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9116/26]
216. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank of Ireland permits regulated financial institutions to accept funds or open accounts where the ultimate beneficial owner has not been identified and verified in accordance with anti-money laundering legislation; whether any exemptions or alternative arrangements are recognised in supervisory guidance; and if he will provide d…
219. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of supervisory inspections, enforcement actions, or remedial directions relating to failures in anti-money laundering or know your customer compliance were issued by the Central Bank of Ireland in each of the past five years; and whether any related to failures to identify ultimate beneficial owners. [7151/26]
221. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether his Department has been made aware, through engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland, of any pattern of confidential High Court settlements entered into by an organisation (details supplied) relating to mortgage or consumer banking disputes following the conclusion of the tracker mortgage examination; and whether such settlements have been…
222. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the policies or guidance in place to ensure that where a regulated financial institution settles multiple similar legal claims on a confidential basis, the Central Bank assesses whether those settlements constitute evidence of ongoing consumer detriment requiring market-wide redress; and whether he will provide details of any such assessments carried…
223. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance whether the Central Bank has an obligation, under the consumer protection framework arising from the tracker mortgage examination, to apply the "stop the harm" principle where evidence emerges of repeated settlements affecting a defined customer cohort; and whether he is satisfied that this principle is being applied consistently where redress is obt…