Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

There is no naughty list. People are entitled to a social welfare payment or they are not entitled. At any moment in time regardless of their previous history, they either have an entitlement or do not have an entitlement.

People may have been overpaid for some reason or other in the past and we will have sought to recover that overpayment. In certain circumstances where we were convinced there was serious fraud involved we may have prosecuted the individual and he or she may have suffered a sanction on foot of the prosecution. That has no bearing on their entitlement at any moment in time.