Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 November 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments
11:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
Everything was fine. There are always issues in IT system implementations. If we had got the scannable certificates from all doctors, we probably would have been able to struggle through but not when there was a scannable certificate issue and a design issue. The only thing we did not do is that we assumed the system would work fine so we trained staff to work with a perfect system. However, when the system was not perfect, we put staff in a difficult situation.
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