Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013

10:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

They would be water cooler services, office supplies, cheque stationery, which is a very specialised printing arrangement, or file management and retrieval. Another specialist piece is the electronic queue management whereby one pulls out a ticket in a queue system. If we have technology based on a particular infrastructure, we are required to deal with the supplier there and nobody else. Another service is translation, when we need to get documents translated. Another item is stock control. There is a variety of items.