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:

As I said, the activation process was a particular process that we were asked to put in place when we started this process and when the roll-out of public service cards was in its very early days. We came to a conclusion some time ago that the activation process did not add any value but in a context where we were renegotiating with the card provider about an extension to the end of 2017, it was not an element of the contract we were going to turn off until we had concluded those negotiations. We have stopped that now.

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