Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is the Minister familiar with the conclusion of the Data Protection Commissioner that in some cases the public services card makes access to a service more difficult, for example, when one must artificially produce the card when identify verification was not required in the past with respect to, say, school transport appeals. Has that practice been discontinued? Would the Minister like to comment on the decision taken by other Departments and other public bodies to abandon insistence on the production of a public services card to get access to their services?

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