Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)

I do not think there is any evidence the Department was aware of this and did not act.

We now have a special unit within the Department focusing on many of these cases. It is dealing with all of the cases. It is complex, involving going through records, including individual pay records, and how they were contracted and dealing with their employers. It is an area that I have been briefed on every month as part of our management team meetings. It is an area where there is proactive work under way across a number of employers and many employees at present in that space. Money is being recouped to the Department on a monthly basis. If the Senator looks at our annual report for 2024, which was published this week, she will see some of the figures there.