Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 December 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

9:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

I will pass the Deputy's thanks on to the staff in terms of her engagement with them. Talking about fraud is always difficult. We do not subscribe, as I said previously, to the skiver or striver stuff in some of the red-top newspapers from time to time.