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:
As I have said, the only exception is that it has the functionality to allow people to access the Leap process for the purposes of integrated ticketing. The computer configuration that had to take place in the Department went way beyond the actual card production. We had to redevelop our entire business in 2011-12 to take account of a range of additional businesses that the Government asked us to take on. We then had to change the fundamentals of the computer infrastructure we rely on. That once-off investment was not attributed to the card per se.