Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Can we also ask the Department to provide information on the lifespan of the card and the projected cost? Are there any storage costs involved in the vast amount of information that is provided and that the Department retains? That was one of the subject matters that the Data Protection Commissioner referred to in her report. I note that, according to the Department, it does not have biometrics but that it has facial matching software and maintenance. It is not a gigantic amount of money but that suggests biometrics to me.