Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Yes. The Government made decisions at that point that this was worth pursuing. The Department went to the market in 2009 in the first phase of the development to ascertain whether the market could respond and give us what we were looking for in terms of a secure identity card, which could be used for accessing public services based on the information we hold in our client identity services, and a registration process that had yet to be designed