Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion
10:00 am
Mr. Barry Lowry:
In that case I expect the investigation will discover exactly what happened. I am sure the role of the computer system will be investigated and if there are weaknesses in the system they will be fixed. In terms of the what the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, CIO, is doing, we are working with the Departments to compile a list of systems that will require verified public identifiers. We are developing timelines for how those systems will start to use the MyGovID, the SAFE process, the public service card process and so forth, because that is the most robust means available to the State to ensure that somebody online who claims to be a person is actually that person. It is important that we use those systems. However, that is a considerable improvement step from where we are today, and I am not saying that where we are today is not a reasonable position.
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