John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for her reply. I asked whether something could be done differently. I accept in good faith the efforts that are being made to fine-tune this system. One of the letters I received referred to "the company" that is validating the documents that are submitted. Can the Minister of State let me know whether some of the processing of grant applications, or of appeals relating to grant applications, has been outsourced to an outside body? Given that almost 20,000 applications have been accompanied by incorrect information-----

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