Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We will have a much better experience this year in the operation of the SUSI organisation. We all have learnt from the challenges that were posed during the course of last year. We have now got the assent from the Data Protection Commissioner and others to share information between different Government agencies which will speed up the process more effectively. I will keep a close monitoring eye on this to ensure that any problems that arise will be dealt with. Three extra senior management staff have been made available and up to, effectively, an additional 23 whole-time equivalent posts have been made available to deal with peak times when applications require an increase in human resources.

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