Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

He will see that the story is not as it has been portrayed. We are very keen to eliminate fraud and, as the Deputy will be aware, we have made substantial savings through, for example, the fraud control measure on child benefit this year. I will do anything I can to try to eliminate fraud.

The Deputy asked about the identity card. I would hope to have the first of them by the end of the year and to introduce it early next year. It will be a chip and PIN card with a high-quality photograph - a similar arrangement to that which exists in a passport. However, it is not strictly speaking an identity card and perhaps we should not use that term; it is a social services card. While it will enable people to avail of State services, it has nothing to do with the justice system so a garda will not be able to stop someone on the street looking for-----

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