Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
We have not published an implementation plan. When we published the document, the Data Protection Commissioner's findings on 17 September, we published our own response. At that stage we had got the advice from the Attorney General's office. Effectively, as already discussed, the advice was that we were operating within the law. Therefore, given we were operating within the law, we did not believe it was necessary to develop an implementation plan.
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