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:
If I can refer back, at the time, what we were looking at back primarily in the initial stages was the cost of producing the card itself. I think that works out at something like €8 or €9 per card. Obviously, the registration process adds to that. The registration process is about verifying the individual who is sitting in front of one so, yes, I am very happy that if one is taking that once-off registration process, the entire cost of that intervention is €20. That is very good value for the State.