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
11:55 am
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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That is incredible. Some €1 million in taxpayers' money was defrauded from the Department over a six-year period by one individual. That equates to something over €150,000 per year or just over €3,000 per week. Deputies refer people who are in direct circumstances to community welfare officers, CWOs. Why was this level of fraud not identified earlier?