Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

It is absolutely about using the skills to inform what we do on fraud. That is happening in terms of integrated control teams on the ground and in relation to joint operations between inspectors and community welfare officers. It is happening in relation to the feeding of intelligence that helps inform the targeting of SIU activity. While there are currently no community welfare officers in SIU, I am confident that will change on the basis of the current competition. It is a question of balancing resources across the full range of activity of the Department, including serious fraud investigation.