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
Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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Okay, that is fine. I would like to ask about the ability of the technology itself to move with the times. Difficulties can arise when technologies become antiquated and unusable within five to ten years of being produced and have to be redone. I hate the expression "future-proofing", but I assume some sort of future-proofing is built into the production of this card. I ask Ms O'Donoghue to enlighten me in that regard.