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
Ms Jacinta Stewart:
We had forecast a certain number of telephone calls being received, but as the crisis hit, the increase in the number of calls was 240%. Now the number is much closer to the figure we had forecast, but in that period the volume of calls was huge. If we had continued with the agreement that 100% of calls would be answered within 30 seconds, it would have cost an additional €500,000.