Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund

9:00 am

Mr. John McKeon:

There is an issue which was discussed here, for example, last year, in the context of whether we should call issues where we suspect fraud as fraudulent cases with regard to people claiming benefit or whether we should delay the labelling of fraud until the person is found guilty in court. Defining whether something is bogus or not is a matter of judgment. We record strictly what are mis-classifications of employment. If it is subsequently found in court that a person was fraudulently presented as being self-employed and he or she was not, then one can label it bogus. Until then, to use the terminology we us, it is only suspected bogus, and we were asked not to use that term. We have to be consistent.

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