Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011

12:25 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the major conclusions from the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Garda Síochána in examining fraud is that a big part of preventing a recurrence is an intensive engagement with people who are receiving benefits. Ms O'Donoghue is saying that across this period, after the new system was put in place, there was a big difference in the results compared with what happened beforehand.

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