Seanad debates

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Social Protection: Statements (Resumed)

 

12:05 pm

Photo of Joan BurtonJoan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I am not in favour of some of the changes being made in Britain; some of them are extremely difficult. I prefer to encourage and provide people with the supports and capacity to re-engage in work and education. We do not have the technical resources to do it anyway. If we suspect someone of fraud, and members of the public telephone us all the time when they feel something is wrong about particular payments in a particular house, an inspector can have a look at all the different payments but the computer system will not bring that up automatically because there are different structures and headings for structures. There is no account, which is what the Senator is talking about.

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