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

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12:45 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

The area in which the fraud is alleged to have been perpetrated involves a mixture of discretionary payments and claims. I do not know what the breakdown is between them other than that a range of issues are being pursued as part of the investigation.

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