Enda Kenny has said 600,000 biometric social welfare cards will be used next year in an effort to clamp down on sneaky fraudsters.
The move came as Enda and the lads in Government HQ faced a bit of criticism from the media and public for doing basically nothing since they began their time in office. Enda made the comments at the Cork Chamber of Commerce annual dinner last night. Details of the main course were not disclosed.
The Taoiseach told those in attendance that the Government wants to strengthen the current welfare system to prevent future fraud.
He said: “Last year the Department of Social Protection said to me and to their minister that they were only able to produce about 4,000 cards that would be fraud-proof, biometric and so on.
“Well next year, we are going to produce over 600,000 of these. We are not going to have a situation where person X might sign on in one exchange and sign on in another at the same time, because all that is going to end.”
However, if this promise is anything like the other promises he’s made in the past (and we all know about them), then we don’t think the fraudsters will have too much to worry about.
