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:
The Data Protection Commissioner's report was issued as a final report on 15 August, with an accompanying letter. We felt we needed clarifications on the meaning of some of the findings and of some of the directions given in the letter. We felt there were some inconsistencies. We wanted to talk to the Data Protection Commissioner about that to get clarity. The Data Protection Commissioner, as the Deputy rightly says, felt that that would be inappropriate until she had an implementation plan. She subsequently continued to feel that it would be inappropriate. I do not have a difficulty with that decision of the Data Protection Commissioner.
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