Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund

9:00 am

Mr. John McKeon:

No, it would be wrong to say that as well. There is a Government decision on this. Where citizens, clients, customers - people use different terms so I will use all of them - engage with the State to get a high-value public service, they should authenticate their identity with what we call the SAFE2 standard. It is a high level of assurance of somebody's identity. Whether it is done through our process or another body decides to set it up and have a parallel process, we strongly encourage that other body to use our process purely for purposes of savings and public convenience. If another public body decides to use another process, it is a matter for that body. It must get sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for that expenditure, so it is a separate discussion it would require.

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