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

The Minister said she was building on the previous anti-fraud strategy. Is she aware that her predecessor, when he introduced the previous so-called anti-fraud strategy in 2016, estimated that fraud amounted to €530 million? Some €530 million was going to be saved as this was the amount of fraud in the system. Subsequent parliamentary questions revealed that in 2016, the Department raised €110 million in overpayments, of which only €41 million amounted to fraud. Has the Department taken any steps to recalculate how it measures fraud in view of the Taoiseach's massive overestimation of the amount of fraud in the system?

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