Written answers

Tuesday, 7 February 2006

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Information Technology Initiatives

9:00 pm

Photo of Enda KennyEnda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 337: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when he expects the first early childhood supplement to be made; the information technology implications for his Department of the new payment; if the current information technology system is capable of making the payment; if not, the necessary steps and timeframe for the information technology system to become compatible with the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3859/06]

Photo of Séamus BrennanSéamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department will provide payment production services for the early child care supplement scheme on an agency basis for the office of the Minister for Health and Children.

The scheme is to come into effect from April 2006. Payment of the supplement will be made on a quarterly basis, and three payments will issue during 2006, with the first payment expected to be made in the summer. However, it is not possible at this early stage of planning and development to give precise payment dates.

The ECS will require the development and implementation of new information technology functionality to support payment of entitlements and administration of the scheme. It is planned to undertake that work by extending the current phase of the service delivery modernisation programme, a multi-annual programme of work involving the introduction of new technology and the replacement of legacy computer systems.

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