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
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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That has been outlined clearly in Ms O'Donoghue's opening statement. It was highlighted that the Department did not have a business plan, did not assess the risk, and did not assess the competency of the contractor to roll this out. Why was the project not re-tendered when all these problems emerged? Was that ever considered?