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

Mr. John McKeon:

I am sorry. I could have put the figures in. However, there is certainly no intention on my part to overstate the existence of fraud. I thought I had been clear in pointing out how fraud is overstated in the public. If the Deputy had been here for the earlier discussion, he would have heard me talk about the level of fraud being sensationalised in a way it should not be.