Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I am greatly interested in the public services card because I was involved in the development of the Leap card. I was absolutely shocked to hear that we are creating a new health number rather than using the PPS number. I still think it is wrong. In fact, it is crazy. Can the public services card be used to access all the health information of someone on the side of the road?