Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

1:10 pm

Mr. Tony O'Brien:

We expect to conclude the business case in early January and to then engage with and formally submit it to the chief information officer at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which is the appropriate process. As one would expect, they will seek to interrogate and validate to ensure that they are satisfied that what we are seeking meets the business objectives and in accordance with their own processes they will then approve it in due course. We will then have to procure the system in accordance with public procurement requirements. As the chief financial officer has said, fully moving over to that system is probably a three-year project.