Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
It is continually updated to take account of the opportunities that arise for use of the card or its data set for different purposes. The original thinking for the development of the card came from an inter-departmental group in the first instance but because of the client base of the Department and the fact that we had a token in place with a social services card that we figured we needed to replace and also hold PPS end data and client identity data, we were the logical lead Department together with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
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