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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Why would the Department embark on the campaign that the Taoiseach led if Mr. McKeon, as Secretary General of the Department, says there is not extensive fraud? He cannot blame this on the red top media, which, by the way, is not a correct term, and say the tabloid media is driving it if the very Minister heading up the Department embarked on a campaign as well.