Jim O'Keeffe
Question:40 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the reason a person (details supplied) in County Cork continues to be denied payment of arrears of child benefit to which this person is lawfully entitled in a situation where this person handed in an unemployment benefit book in Dublin in 1996 and where it appears that subsequently such benefit was fraudulently claimed in the UK; the investigations which have taken place here in relation to the matter; the report which has been obtained from the UK authorities in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4878/03]