Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

My understanding is that these are overpayments that have been recorded and have been attributed to fraud. There is a substantially higher figure of overpayments recorded that are due to, for example, administrative errors or whatever. The specific information in this instance refers to fraud or suspected fraud cases.