Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

I am glad that the Deputy welcomes the extraordinary success and progress in implementing this scheme, where 1,100 people have received a favourable response weeks after it has commenced.

If community welfare officers were to transmit data electronically to Dublin, it would become separated from the application received in my Department. It would then be someone's business to try to associate particular e-mails to data that comes in.

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