Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh McPhillips:

Regarding the transformation programme, we devised a plan in 2018 as a result of the report produced by the effectiveness and renewable group. It was implemented in nine months, from January 2019 to the end of September 2019, and in full at that time. The consultants who supported us to do the transformation were EY, but the Department very much led the process. That was completed at the time. Elements of the Department were unaffected by that process and we always knew we would have to return to them. The immigration area is one of them. We are now looking at immigration from the perspectives of its structure and its modernisation. I refer to bringing digital services----