Dáil debates
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Other Questions
Child Benefit Administration
10:30 am
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source
Every year, the Department of Social Protection staff in Carrick-on-Shannon very effectively identify €70-80 million in control savings under the child benefit scheme. Is there not something fundamentally wrong when 10% of the control savings on an annual basis are consistently identified as relating to large-scale fraud, overpayments or errors within the scheme?
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