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:
The Department has to operate in a public service context and within Government decisions on public service numbers. As with any head of any organisation, if I had more staff I could do more but within the numbers the Government has approved for us we have to prioritise our activities across our core functions and our control activity to ensure we deliver the best service we can and take advantage of as much business efficiency technology and automation as we can to get best value for the staff we have.