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:

The point is that we have been involved in multi-agency vehicle checkpoints specifically to tackle shadow economy activity and focused on people who might be working but who are in receipt of a social welfare payment. We have been carrying those checks out now for six or seven years. They are very successful and are generally received extremely well by legitimate business people within towns.

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