Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Does Ms O'Donoghue believe the new system is operating effectively? As someone looking at the system, €2.6 million has been spent on the new software, yet in all of the key areas, there seems to be an issue in reconciling the differences. There is also a concern about the integrity of the system. Has it to do with staffing issues and what is being input into the system or the actual system?