Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 163: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her projection of the amount that will be saved from anti-fraud and control work by her Department; and if she expects that these savings will be sufficient to allow the Christmas bonus payment to be reinstated. [34410/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The annual control target for my Department in 2009 is €616.5 million of which nearly €312 million was achieved by the end of last August. These target control savings for 2009 are incorporated in my Department's Revised Estimate for 2009.

In the supplementary budget in April, it was announced that the December bonus payment would not be paid this year. There are no plans to alter this decision.