Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage

1:05 pm

Photo of Aengus Ó SnodaighAengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The key part of all this is the Statute of Limitations. We cannot have a situation where a person is continually going back. If a person is guilty of fraud and if the Department goes back 30 years, it will charge the person with fraud, but if not, a line needs to be drawn in the sand.

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