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:

Exactly, and I think we have broken the back of that now with the micro-ID system. We will now be rolling out online, we have dipped our toe in the water and have had some good take up on some schemes. Although the treatment benefit, which the Chairman instanced, is done through the dentists and opticians, it is a good example of what can be achieved within the organisation. We want to do that with doctors and illness benefit claims. We get 10,000 illness benefit claims each day. If we could get those online it would have huge benefits for us.

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