Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012

11:25 am

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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It makes for welcome reading. I commend the work of the Intreo offices, which is very good. The fraud issue comes up every year. I welcome the fact that the Department has published a compliance and anti-fraud strategy for the period 2014-18. Some of it makes for interesting reading. The document refers to a particular case of an individual who had €400,000 on deposit and was in receipt of social welfare. What type of social welfare was that person in receipt of?