Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know people who ran events and they have told me that there was never a coat lost that was not a brand new leather jacket. When people produced a cloakroom ticket invariably the coat concerned was never a battered old one. If somebody writes something on a claim form and seeks more money than the sum to which he or she is legitimately entitled, then we should not simply call it an exaggeration as it is a form of fraud. An exaggerated claim may not be as blatant or as awful as fraud but it is. Fraud is fraud and exaggeration is a form of fraud. The blatant staging of accidents is worse such as a person who drives a vehicle into a pothole at two miles an hour and claims something happened.