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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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A total of 800,000 people have not rung to say they have received the card. Does market research or a public information campaign exist? It seems very wasteful not to activate a card if someone has it because it could easily go out in the bin and the Department would have to reissue it.