Minister denies turning ‘blind eye’ to decade of fraud

MARY HANAFIN denied the Government had “turned a blind eye” to social welfare fraud over the past decade.

Fine Gael’s immigration and integration spokesman Denis Naughten accused the minister of presiding over a department which is seen as a “soft touch” for accessing fraudulent payments and easy access to PPS numbers.

“The scale of social welfare fraud revealed by Prime Time Investigates simply beggars belief.