28 Feb 2012, 16:01
Officials from the Department of Social Protection will appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education tomorrow, 29th February, to discuss the use of technology in the delivery and processing of social welfare services with specific reference to the development of a national database.
Chairman of the Committee Deputy Damien English said: “The Department of Social Protection processes 87 million payments per year or nearly 250,000 per day. Tomorrow the Committee will meet with officials from the Department to discuss better use of IT to deliver these services. Given the major new focus on ‘activation’ and maintaining and enhancing anti-fraud measures, we will be interested in discussing how the systems are evolving to support the new role and what progress has been made on a national database with a single customer view.”
This meeting will take place on Wednesday, 29nd February in Committee Room 3, Leinster House 2000 at 9.30am.
Committee proceedings can be followed live at:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/ViewDoc.asp?fn=/documents/livewebcast/Web-Live.htm&CatID=83&m=o
For further information please contact:
Ciaran Brennan,
Houses of the Oireachtas,
Communications Unit,
Leinster House,
Dublin 2
P: +3531 618 3903
M: 086-0496518
F: +3531 618 4551
Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education
Membership
Damien English, TD (Chairman)
Ray Butler, TD
Áine Collins, TD
Joan Collins, TD
Michael Conaghan, TD
Barry Cowen, TD
Seán Crowe, TD
Tom Fleming, TD
Brendan Griffin, TD
John Halligan, TD
Seán Kyne, TD
Anthony Lawlor, TD
John Lyons, TD
Nicky McFadden, TD
Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, TD
Aengus Ó Snodaigh, TD
Willie O’Dea, TD
Brendan Ryan, TD
Brendan Smith, TD
Peadar Tóibín, TD
Senators
Deirdre Clune,
John Kelly,
Michael Mullins,
Marie Louise O’Donnell,
Averil Power,
Feargal Quinn