Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a very high level of fraud in the system where payments are paid into the banks. That needs to be looked at by the Department of Social Protection. I understand that in 2019-2020, unclaimed payments amounted to €60 million. If one takes out of that payments that were stopped, in the region of €30 million would have been refunded by An Post to the Department. However, once that money went into the bank accounts it was gone. We need to look at that bigger picture.