Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments

11:30 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate it and thank Mr. McKeon. I turn to some of the issues raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General. One of the matters that sticks out in his analysis is the evidence that payments and excessive claims to entitlements occur on a scale that he feels he needs to bring to the attention of the committee, so it is important that the committee examines and addresses that. He said that there was €117 million in overpayments in 2019. That can happen because of errors and because of fraud. It is not all fraud and there was a downwards trend in fraud. Will Mr. McKeon give me a breakdown of the €117 million in overpayments between what has been identified as fraudulent and what is just an error?

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