Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
Approximately 3.5 million individuals have had public service cards. The relevant data would not have been collected in all cases. When we issue a public service card, we scan evidence of identity and evidence of address, which may include a bill with the letterhead of an electricity supplier and bill information or a bank account and banking information. Where that information was visible on our scanning, it was deemed unnecessary. The agreement would not have applied to all of the records but any of the records that included that information have been deleted.