Eamon Scanlon (Fianna Fail)

I am. In response to Senator Ryan, I would like to point out that I received a telephone call from a constituent as I made my way to Dublin today. I spoke to the father of a young family whose wife has a job. He applied for and was granted social welfare between social employment schemes. He discovered recently that he has received a social welfare overpayment of €52,000 and has been asked to repay the relevant amount. It is accepted that he did not make a false declaration or anything else. I could understand a departmental official making a mistake for a month, two months or three months, but I cannot understand an overpayment of €52,000. That is criminal and someone in the Department is not doing his or her job. It is very wrong that the individual in question, at this stage, is being asked to repay €52,000.