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

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

We are not yet part of the shared payroll system. We are part of the shared HR services and there have been teething troubles. There are issues which we have been very involved in trying to resolve. Being a big Department with a lot of staff, we see them at the coalface.