Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I am answering Deputy Kenny. A decision was taken to incorporate these variations into the new system, which dramatically increased the complexity of the manual intervention. Of course, considering the current situation, it would have been far better if they stuck to trying to get the payroll system right, but they did not. I am not here to dump on anyone; I am answering questions on what happened.

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