Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Some of the initiatives introduced in the past year include the scheme established in July where a person must personally turn up in the post office to get the payment instead of receiving the money by electronic transfer. That measure was a success. Another was the certification of child benefit because we are all aware of people who claim child benefit after leaving the country. There were working here legitimately but they have now left the country and we want to be sure that if they have gone, the money has not gone with them.

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