Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs

9:00 am

Dr. Fergal Lynch:

It has proven to be more complex than we would have originally predicted. I will hold fire, if the Deputy does not mind, on specifying the exact likely final amount. We are pressing very hard for a value-for-money outcome. It will be an extremely good system in the way it will operate. For parents who can access the system online, in drawing together Revenue Commissioners and social protection data, it will be significantly easier than the current system.