Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012
12:05 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
While such detail is to allow us to establish the veracity or otherwise of an allegation, it is on an anonymous basis. This has been responded to by members of the public to an incredible extent in recent years. In 2011, for example, there were just under 17,000 reports of fraud and abuse, and that figure increased to 28,000 in 2012.
It fell slightly, to just over 24,700, in 2013 but it is still a very substantial area of activity and information for the Department.
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