Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept that there are difficulties in respect of tendering, but where there is a will there is a way. With regard to SUSI, instead of centralising the scanning of documents in a building in Cork - where those involved decided to scan one side of the page only and forgot to scan the other side, leading to chaos last year - would it not have made far more sense to have asked people to scan such documentation at their local post office and e-mail it from there to SUSI?

I have two further questions for the Minister. First, has exploration taken place with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine regarding the online submission of single farm payment application forms or the cattle movement system? Second, rather than always looking internally, has An Post explored the possibility of becoming the lead agency for electronic invoicing to create additional income and perhaps a capability within the organisation that would bring new, alternative business into the network system?

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