John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was also a mandatory requirement - not just online - for anybody applying for naturalisation to have a public services card. Coincidentally, that requirement ceased on 16 August, the day after the publication of this report. Is that a coincidence? I do not think so. The Government took a fundamental position of forcing people to get a public services card to acquire these entitlements.