Dáil debates
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions
Social Welfare Fraud
11:30 am
John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I was trying to make notes as the Minister was giving her reply. I will get the information from the full transcript of her reply. I acknowledge that she stated last summer that she was establishing the new unit. She might indicate how many people are actually working in the new unit. Is she saying that only two of the 500 investigations uncovered possible bogus self-employment and that one of these was not a case of bogus self-employment? Is that what she is trying to tell us in terms of the numbers? Is this new unit working independently in the Department or is it working as the scope section traditionally worked, for example, on joint investigations with Revenue?
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