Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If the Minister assures me that the problem is fizzling out and most people are being accommodated, I will accept that. However, I am continuing to get a number of queries. The Department might be telling the Minister that all arrears are being paid, but that certainly does not tally with the information I am getting from my constituents. I accept that the Minister is not seeking to justify what happened. I accept that she does not stand over it. I would like to return to a question I asked earlier. Will anybody be held accountable, even in the sense of being spoken to or remonstrated with? If consultants were involved in the installation of this software, as has been suggested, what are the prospects that they will be employed by the Government again? Have they been spoken to? What about the officials who signed off on the new medical certificates last August without any notification or any advance notice to anybody?

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