Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

There is no way, despite all our best efforts, that we will get another €223 million over and above the €580 million. I said on the day of the budget that if there was any sort of windfall, this would be the one area the Government would like to reinstate by Christmas but I do not want to raise expectations. We will continue with anti-fraud measures and controls with our normal four-pronged attack: prevention at the early stages, detection through review of claims in payment, deterrence of fraud and pursuit of those who have taken money they are not entitled to, either in error or deliberately, with prosecution where necessary.

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