Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Something here intrigues me. The HSE says that "The introduction of the new system has had a particular impact on the 400 Time Returning Officers". I do not know whether this is a full-time post or just part of someone's job. If everyone is directly inputting their own information, what are the 400 time returning officers doing now? The HSE also says "In addition, staff in the payroll and staff records departments, spend less time on manual data entry and increased time on data validation." Where is the saving if these staff are not doing the inputting but are spending more time checking what everyone else has done? I would have thought the purpose of a system like this was to-----