Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

4:30 pm

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I do not have the project plan here but it is a major project over a number of years. An interim payroll upgrade will happen next year, and we are investigating the extent to whether as part of the payroll upgrade and the software upgrade it might be possible to do that. I would very much like to be able to do what Deputy McAuliffe has said, and I agree with his assertion that we need to do better. I cannot guarantee that that will be part of it but we are pushing to try to make it part of it.