Ms Martina Mannion:

It is an IT solution that is transferring real-time information between the two Departments. It works for school staff who are employed on a casual or substitute basis with jobseeker's benefit. Basically, it has reduced the need for payroll staff to manually complete the forms and return them to the school staff. Potentially, 100,000 forms were being completed each year. There is now a real-time solution for what was taking six to eight weeks.