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:
The final cost for the campaign was €163,000, excluding VAT. The net cost to the Exchequer was €163,000. The intention to have a communications campaign about the issue of providing correct information to deter fraud and to assure customers that the Department takes fraud seriously was a departmental view.