Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011
11:55 am
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I wish to be very specific. In my experience as a public representative nobody has the intelligence CWOs have. They deal with people on the ground and administer the rent supplement scheme. They know what is happening. They are the ones with whom we deal on the front line in many cases. I cannot understand why a significant proportion of them were not assigned to inspection and fraud duties.