Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011
1:05 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
The delivery of the free travel variant of the card, in other words, the card that will have the chip allowing people to access integrated transport, will be issued before the end of this year. It will take some time to deliver them to the entire free travel population but we should at least be getting user data based on a sample basis before the end of the year.
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