Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

A number of ICT and computer facilitation upgrades are taking place in the Department. If the Deputy outlines his concerns, I will examine them. The Department of Social Protection is responsible for paying more than 1 million people some kind of payment or benefit. The Department took on redundancy and insolvency payments in order to reduce the backlog when those payments were managed by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. That was an extra job taken on by my Department. I will consider what the Deputy said.

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