Paper utility bills and ID requests

Sir, – The requirements of the prize bonds company for ID (December 30th) are being reflected across a wide range of business activities. Recently I was asked to produce not one but two separate original utility bills for a particular application. The issue here is that all of the utility companies are pretty much forcing their customers to move to online, paperless billing. The Government is encouraging us to become an e-society. It's time that it amended the anti-money laundering laws to facilitate this? – Yours, etc,

JOHN FAGAN,

Killiney,

Co Dublin.