John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be very quick. I have a question about recovery of money that is deemed to be under the headings of fraud and error, customer error, departmental error or overpayment. Ms O'Donoghue had a conversation with the Chairman earlier on. He was talking about extrapolation of figures. What I am trying to get at is this. What percentage of the overpayments or the moneys that are due to fraud and error are recovered? The Department has put in place systems in the past couple of years or has changed its systems when it comes to this recovery generally. Firstly, what percentage of all of that money under those headings is recovered? Has that improved when compared with previous years?