Dáil debates
Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions
Social Welfare Fraud Cost
2:05 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
What we will discuss tomorrow are the heads of a Bill. We will have a chance to go through the issue in more detail then. The intention is that the list would be published on a quarterly basis after the convictions have been secured but would not appear on the website in perpetuity, that it would be taken down after a period. As is the case with any information in the public domain, of course, people could retain it and make use of it into the future. However, as the Deputy pointed out in his initial comments, the media organisations very often cover convictions related to welfare fraud and the same applies in this instance: people could save the information and keep it for the future.
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