Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Nobody on any side of the House condones welfare fraud, but does the Minister agree that the proper figure for such fraud is in the order of €40 million and not €500 million as some have suggested? It has been suggested to me that there may be some legal or constitutional difficulty with limiting the publication to cases of more than €5,000. Is that the case? If it is not possible to limit publication to cases valued at more than €5,000, will the Minister consider dropping the proposal? Let us face it, these people have already appeared in the newspapers, people know who they are because they are in local and national media when they are prosecuted for social welfare fraud. There is no obvious reason for listing them again on some sort of list.

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