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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out a formal assessment regarding the risks of introducing a public services card; if her Department has carried out a data privacy impact assessment with regard to the public services card; the impact of the public services card to date with regard to reducing rates of social welfare fraud,...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State said on Committee Stage that he could not accept our amendments. Obviously, he is trying to reverse the amendments we secured at the time relating to the public services card and the public service identity data set. The Minister of State said the measures would be in direct conflict with existing legislation. He referred to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act. This...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ..., the Minister will publish it. Transparency certainly helps. It is amazing that the Department's response to the Data Protection Commissioner's inquiry, at this late stage in the history of the public services card's roll-out, requires such a protracted, extended defence. This is the largest data-sharing project in the history of the State and I think it has cost approximately...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (20 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the person or body that is the data controller for the public services card and attendant database; the way in which this information affects her Department in relation to the public services card and single customer view; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8445/18]

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We really hope that Fianna Fáil Deputies will not do a U-turn on this and that they do not hide behind this wonderful contraption called confidence and supply. The public services card project is a ticking time bomb for the Government as far as we are concerned. If by chance Fianna Fáil Deputies were to do a U-turn on it, it might not look great on their record when the trouble...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a cost benefit analysis was carried out by her Department regarding the public services card; if so, the date on which this will be published; the amount her Department has saved by preventing social welfare fraud through the roll-out of the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Services Card (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Wallace: 1069. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the change to the mandatory requirement for a public services card for applying for a driver licence and provisional licence; the cost of the project to make the public services card mandatory for applications; when similar changes for the driver theory test will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Authentication (17 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: 1432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an adoption certificate is still required for all public services card applications in view of recent media reports of a person who was awarded a public services card without an adoption certificate; if short form birth certificates are now acceptable for all applications; the impact of this on her Department's SAFE 2...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the exact date invitations to register for a public services card were first sent by her Department to persons who have been registered to SAFE 2 standard by the National Driver Licence Service; if the information used to identify persons who do not have a public services card but are SAFE authenticated and invite these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: insertheading (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal basis for withholding social welfare payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to such payments fails to register for a public services card; her views on whether the overall government policy in relation the public services card and SAFE level two registration limits the statutory discretion of power of her...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...also said that it is also up to each individual service provider to seek legislation, if required, to put in place the mechanism it wishes to use. If that is the case then our amendments on the public services card will provide clarity only. The Department of Employment and Social Protection, for example, might be made aware that what it is doing in relation to the public services...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 19 February 2019, the survey provider that carried out the recent customer survey on the public services card to which she refers; when the survey was carried out; the survey method used; the sample size; the response rate; if only public services card holders were surveyed; the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...:“(5) The Minister shall, when making an order under subsection (1), have regard to whether provision is made for a person’s right to verify their identity other than by the presentation of a public services card or access to that person’s public service identity.”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...first or second mentioned public body is providing or proposes to provide a service to that person, without prejudice to a person’s right to verify their identity other than by the presentation of a public services card or access to that person’s public service identity;”.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...first or second mentioned public body is providing or proposes to provide a service to that person, without prejudice to a person’s right to verify their identity other than by the presentation of a public services card or access to that person’s public service identity;".

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is withholding payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to same declines to register for a public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8092/19]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(6) A specified body may not make presentation of a public services card or access to a person’s public service identity the exclusive basis by which a person may verify their identity in order to conduct a transaction or access a service.”. I want to say a few words on the amendment, so...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (19 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...Social Protection if her Department has responded to the draft report and request of the Data Protection Commission for further information on the processing of personal data in connection with the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53441/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...the specific legal basis for withholding or denying social welfare payments, including pensions and child benefit, in cases in which a person entitled to such payments fails to register for a public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39595/17]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the final report on the Data Protection Commissioner's investigation into the public services card will be published; if a full or summary report will be published; the reason a full report would not be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8093/19]