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:

The capacity of the company was a key issue but it related to its expertise. It is a very secure card that is built to the highest international standards. If my memory serves me right, the tender involved an Irish company based in Bray and input from a Dutch technology company which is a world expert in this kind of secure card provision. The company in Bray had never physically produced these type of tokens before so it had to build the facility in Bray to do that, which it did. That has also led to other benefits. The company has had other Government business on the back of that investment it made. I cannot remember what the Deputy-----

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