Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I accept that it is not appropriate to put some of what I am asking for in the PSPR and some of it cannot be put into supplementary information because the data may not be generated. However, there is no reason that when the PSPR is circulated to the committee next year, with some of the supplementary data we are to be provided with from SWITCH that is not within the criteria set out here, the Department cannot also tell the committee it has completed reviews and what are the results and recommendations of those reviews. This would give the committee a better insight into what is going on. It is not purely this set of data because some of the data are useful as regards time delays and processing, as Mr. Egan pointed out, but it does not give us any insight into what is going on in the Department. Those figures are not relevant for demand-led schemes. They may be relevant in other areas, but not in ours.
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