Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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Then it is a matter of trying to extrapolate, first, what this is based on and, second, if there are no proper reviews in place, how the Department can make a determination that there is fraudulent behaviour. The Department is giving the benefit of the doubt to the applicant that there is not extensive fraudulent behaviour. I am just saying, regarding making sure there is-----