Results 9,101-9,120 of 12,033 for speaker:Regina Doherty
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: It will be useful to outline the history, rationale and legal basis of the public services card, PSC. It was provided for in legislation in 1998, when it was introduced alongside the personal public service number, PPSN, to replace what were previously the revenue and social insurance, RSI, number and the social services card, SSC. The clear and stated objective, as articulated in the...
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: There is a "but" coming.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: On the day I published the findings of the report, I also published a detailed analysis of our response to the report. While that does not give the Deputy details of the legal opinion, it gives him the robust reasons we believe there is a legal basis for us to continue the practice we-----
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: I ask the Deputy to withdraw that remark or explain it.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy should either withdraw the accusation he has just made that I am misleading this House or he should explain himself.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy should explain how I have misled the House because that is what he said.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: No, I am not.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: No. The Deputy should go back and listen to what I said.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy should go back and listen to what I just said.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy should go back and listen to what I just said. I am happy to be here to defend the policy that Deputy O'Dea made decisions around the Cabinet table to start. I am because I believe in it-----
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: I believe delivering public services in an efficient manner to the people, who we were all here to serve, is the right thing to do and it is important. What I will not do is stand here and have the Deputy challenge me and say I am telling him lies.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: I do not deserve that. I come here in good faith. I am happy to defend a policy that the Deputy instigated when he was sitting around the Cabinet table in 1998 and 2005.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: My Government and the previous Government happily extended that policy-----
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: -----and I am happy to defend it because I believe it is the right thing to do but I will not take the Deputy's guff calling me a liar.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: I am not intimidating anyone. I am sticking up for myself for once.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: I am sick of the Deputy.
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: On the first question the Deputy asked me earlier on about our two requests for a meeting with the Data Protection Commissioner, I cannot answer why the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner refused the meeting. No other meeting before those requests has every been refused. We had extensive engagement on this investigation and on a number of others over recent years since the inception...
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: Can I confirm if, in the second last question the Deputy asked me, he is asking if I got legal advice or if the relevant Department got legal advice?
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: The first question the Deputy asked was on the costs. The Comptroller and Auditor and General estimated the costs of the public services card project to the end of 2017, which are the only current data figures we have, came to €59.7 million. That cost is made up of €30.9 million for the managed services contract, the software, the hardware, support, maintenance and...
- Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)
Regina Doherty: I am answering the question the Deputy asked before that. I cannot say why he said what he said. I am only responsible for delivery of policy in my Department. I do not know if he got legal advice and to answer the same question, I do not know if the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade got legal advice on its policy formation.