Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

While I accept the Deputy's point, these are not stand-alone schemes as they are attached to a primary payment. This means someone must have been eligible for a primary payment in the first instance. Some of this will have come to light already, for example, in the case of the State pension, if memory serves, when we discovered that people had moved from a domiciliary setting into a nursing home. In such cases, the actual overpayment is on the free schemes or living alone allowance or something like that. In one sense, some of that has been captured through the fraud and error exercises on the primary schemes. We also do data matching whenever it is available. Data from the HSE on the fair deal scheme, for example, has enabled us to identify our target reviews in particular cases, having regard to those schemes. It may not be a fraud and error survey but we are looking to see if there is any possibility of overpayment in those areas through other means as well.