Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not think anybody would accuse the commission of short-circuiting or not giving enough time, given the fact that the Data Protection Commissioner is on record in August 2017 saying that she, and presumably her staff, had conveyed their views "on numerous occasions to the Department of [Employment Affairs and] Social Protection and in a number of fora" that there is a pressing need to deal with this. There is no short-circuiting. This has been going on a long time. The indications were that the report would be finished in April 2018 and it is now April 2019 and there are serious issues relating to it.

Do the witnesses know how many bodies are using the SAFE 2 PSC system and how many of these are requiring that this be the sole form of acceptable identification? I do not expect the them to know that but would they be able to provide that information to the committee later? That would be helpful.