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 got the Data Protection Commissioner's report. She asked us to take a certain number of steps, some within one week, three weeks and six weeks. Jacqui McCrum, the deputy secretary at the Department, wrote at the end of the first week to ask for an early meeting to discuss matters, and the Data Protection Commissioner replied to say the commission would meet us once we gave it the full details it looked for at the end of six weeks but that it was not prepared to meet us at that point. It left us in a position where we had to prepare-----
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