Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Quality and responsiveness are important. The scaling moved up quickly with JobPath.

There would be space and freedom from the European procurement directives if tendering was not pursued and Intreo's internal capacity was looked at instead. Is there potential for, or are there plans for, increasing Intreo's staffing levels and perhaps, in some of the ongoing work, increasing the internal and ongoing capacity of the services to support Irish citizens?

We talked about groups of people who are hard to reach, perhaps those who are precluded from payments because of an habitual residency condition. They may be addressed under a consideration of voluntary access.