Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Staying with the question of compliance, if there is one thing that people hate, it is abuse of the social welfare system. It breaks the social contract. It breaks the deal whereby if one cannot get by one will be helped out and if one is making one's own way one pays one's own way. The stories in the press would imply that the number of people reporting or identifying people who they believe to be defrauding the system has increased dramatically since the start of the recession a number of years ago. Can Ms O'Donoghue inform me on how that has changed, the figures involved, and how her Department has reacted to the increased number of tip-offs and informers and that kind of thing?