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
11:35 am
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Am I correct in saying that in 2012 total overpayments amounted to €97 million; that the figure for client error was €36 million; fraud, €41 million; estate cases, €13 million; and departmental error, €7 million? The figure for client error was 37%; fraud, 42%; estate cases, 14%; and departmental error, 7%. In total, the figure for fraud amounted to €41 million out of a budget of €20 billion.