Ms Helen Dixon:

We have no insight, other than what we have read in the media, into why clarification has now been issued both to our department directly and in correspondence with us about complaints we are investigating about the use of the public services card. We have no insight into how that decision-making process arose. It is important to point out that in the context of our report and the findings we have made, they are findings specifically against the controller of the data - the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The report is about the processing of personal data being conducted by that Department in the context of SAFE, level-2 standard, and the issuing of the public services card. When Deputy Munster asks me about vindication, there has been no vindication of the findings in the response of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. It is not really a question I can answer because I have no such insight.