Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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With respect, I am putting the questions. If we, as a committee, sought information from a Department and received 470 scanned, unpaginated pages, I am sure we would return them. When this was put to her, the Data Protection Commissioner stated this was unusual and far from the norm when receiving information from a Department. In fact, she was critical of the Department for the manner in which it was sent.