Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 June 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants
10:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
Yes. Paragraph 4.33 states the ETB reduced the service level requirement in respect of calls answered in the contract call centre. The original target, as we understood it, was 100% of calls would be answered within 30 seconds. The arrangement that was put in place instead was that 80% of calls would be answered within 20 seconds and there was no specific target on the time it would take to answer the remaining 20% of calls. That is what I have said in the report.