Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I get the idea of building a system. Witnessed referred to the IHI and stated that number will not be used. Whether we change it to the PPSN, we are building a system that can itself read. It can update itself. It is not impossible for computers to read 20 numbers or whatever else; that is what computers do. Humans are not as good at it. If a system is built, it can be added to and changed and so on. I presume that is what the Department was trying to do with the original IHI. It did not have permission to use the PPSN. The new legislation will move towards that and whatever else we develop in the future.