Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
We are very confident that the new system is working properly and enhancing considerably our ability to identify and recover debt at an early stage. There is no doubt that in the transition from the old to the new system there have been difficulties. We are working through them to identify how they may have occurred and what the problems were, but we are very confident that the new system is working properly.
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