Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On PPS numbers, people generally did not have a difficulty in the past giving that information to Government agencies. In fact, in 2012, the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht recommended that PPS numbers be used as a method of collating information for a body that would be set up in the future to deal with water services. What caused the difficulty in actuality was that the measure was brought in as an amendment to the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014.

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