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 original cards had a lifespan of five years while the more recent cards have a lifespan of seven years. Some of that is to take account of the points about obsolescence and emerging technology and if we need to include something additional. Another factor is that we were able to evaluate that. Five years was too short because of the functions of the card.
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