Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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For clarification, Mr. McKeon said he had provided the committee, under separate cover, with some examples of cases where savings were realised due to the detection of fraud. They include photographs, so I will not circulate them today as to do so might set the wrong message. They will not be published but it might set the wrong tone to hand out photographs of people who were found to have been engaged in fraud. I acknowledge that Mr. McKeon offered them.
I ask members to stick to the times. There is no voting slot today so I suggest that, having started at 11.30 a.m., we take a break at 1.30 p.m. for lunch.