Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Within the particular schemes there is a breakdown of fraud and error. In fairness, the fraud elements would not be very high. In fact the overall figure for the scheme is not high, but it is higher because of the medical component. One of the issues is whether it be at initial claim or at the review, we need to see the full picture, we need to see all the medical evidence that is available in order to support the claim.
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