Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The importance of this is such that we need to arrange a special or urgent session on this. The senior people in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform responsible for this and for the decision in 2018 should be brought before us. What I am not clear about is the exact role of the Minister, Deputy Smyth, with regard to e-government generally. Is there yet another layer potentially holding this back? What is the Minister of State doing? Does he have a role? I just do not know.