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
12:15 pm
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Equally, I must act on evidence. The evidence suggests to me that the cold, hard fact is that 0.44% of the overall social welfare budget was collected in respect of overpayments and fraud. We do not even make a distinction.