Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy knows, we will have a chance to discuss this issue tomorrow at the committee. I do not disagree with him. If publicised lists make sense in dealing with this type of fraud and crime, why would it not also make sense in dealing with others? This campaign and the additional measures we propose to take are all designed to deter people from engaging in welfare fraud in the first place. To clarify some numbers that I know are in the public domain - I have seen them carried in some of the newspapers and online - the figures given by my Department for suspected identity fraud were not correct. I see some coverage in the newspapers today suggesting there has been only one case of suspected identity fraud this year. That is not the case. In fact, there have been 11 such cases. There were 46 last year, 54 the year before and 29 the year before that.

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