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
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
In the overall scheme of things, the Department has put in a huge effort and 20 gardaí have been specially consigned to the relevant unit. They are on the streets of Galway. Fraud is a minor part of the overall budget, most people comply and when we look at the insolvency figures and the redundancy figures, the incident is much bigger but the money has not been gone after for various reasons. I am not criticising the Secretary General, I just note that from the figures.
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