Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I warmly congratulate Mr. Murphy on his elevation. It is a victory not just for him personally but for his entire team and the country as a whole. It should be talked about loudly and widely.

I will dig into a couple of areas. They are more general but some follow on from a few of the areas raised by Deputy Howlin. The steady increase in error coming through over the past two years and expected for this year is a concern. I know Mr. Murphy's role is to audit and identify errors but there also has to be a question of how these errors are fixed. Do the systems themselves need to be addressed? I see this all the time at a much smaller level where people are applying for Erasmus+. The application system seems to have become steadily more complicated and unwieldily and involves more stakeholders and more room for error. The more people involved in engaging in a reporting facility or an application decision, the greater the scope for error.

I do not know if it is in the court’s remit or in Mr. Murphy's personal remit to advocate as to where these areas could be simplified to remove the scope for error. Is that a space the court would like to move into or is work being done, if not by the court, then by partners in the Commission, to try to nip out these errors at source rather than just looking at them steadily increasing?