Dáil debates
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
Leaders' Questions
12:15 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Welfare fraud is very real. It is a real problem in this country and in every western society. Even if we take the lowest estimate of the scale of welfare fraud in this country, it is about €40 million a year. That is a lot of money in my view. Let us not forget that people who engage in welfare fraud are not the poor and vulnerable. They are people who are pretending to be poor and vulnerable. They are people who are working and claiming.
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