Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I worry when the Minister of State mentions, for example, motor tax. I do not know what the percentage is but I presume that the percentage of people doing that online at this stage is very high. We all remember the old days of having to go in, queue up, and bring this, that, and the other document. Now one can do this with a series of clicks and it arrives two days later. Over time that is going to happen more often. It is about the services which involve checking people's identities, whether it is for jobseeker's allowance or pensions, and establishing if they are still in the State and are still entitled to get what they are getting.

There is scope there. However, I wonder if we see the network being 930 five or ten years hence or if we see it being 600 or 400. Has there been any examination of that?