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

Photo of Shane CassellsShane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The word "fraud" has serious connotations when assigned to the farming sector and it would be very worrying. I wanted to explore it in case people are not actively or knowingly trying to pursue fraudulent payments. It is a high figure when one sees that it is up there under disability allowance.

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