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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
No, it is the Data Protection Commissioner's report. In any event, I will move on because I want to look at processes. We had quite an interesting discussion with the Data Protection Commissioner on the interaction between the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner and the Department. The Data Protection Commissioner had some stuff to say about that, which I will get to. I have extracts from what she said. There were a number of issues with that interaction. On point 12 of the executive summary in her report, she says the Department was not in a position to meet in a deadline that was set on 31 October 2018. It was a deadline for a draft report. She stated the Department intended to send its response to the DPC by 30 November. At that point the Department threatened the possibility of legal proceedings. Is that correct?
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