Ms Josephine Feehily:

For many years we have built up our exchange of information with the Department of Social Protection. We get regular updates on virtually all of its information and schemes. We also regularly get updates from the General Register Office, which is part of the Department of Social Protection. We receive a lot of information. A lot of it will be in Revenue's systems and the tool will run across all of them. A high level standing group comprising officials from Revenue and the Department meets. We will share our technology and the results of the pilot scheme. I want to emphasise that this is a pilot scheme. I expect it will have many uses but we will not know them until we carry out tests.

For those interested in technology, and I cannot explain it very well, Revenue has its first cloud application that works with Social Protection. It enables live data from both Departments to be worked on at the same time in certain cases. The data on certain cases for investigation are put into a cloud environment. The officials from Revenue and Social Protection can access the data in a live environment and at the same time. I understand that process is currently reaping significant dividends for the Department of Social Protection.