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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Following a public procurement process, the tender for the supply of the production, personalisation and distribution of the Public Services Card (PSC) and the provision of associated services was awarded to Security Card Concepts in July 2018 for a period of three years. The supplier is based in Bray. This is simply a new supply contract, it is not a new generation card. The Public...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...the PPSN to replace the previous Revenue and Social Insurance number (RSI) and the Social Service Card (SSC). The clear and stated objective as articulated in Oireachtas at that time was that the Public Services Card was not to be confined to welfare services but to act as an identifier for access to a broad range of public services. Successive Governments have reaffirmed this policy both...

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

Regina Doherty: ...access to services provided by my Department but also for an increasing number of public services provided by other State agencies. Once a person is registered to SAFE 2, they can be issued with a Public Services Card (PSC). There was no expenditure or public information campaign dedicated to advertising the Public Services Card in 2017. In 2017, my Department produced an explainer video...

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The public services card is simply the token that proves that a person, Joan Collins for example, has completed the SAFE 2 level process and that she is Joan Colllins. The card is only a by-product or a token of having gone through that standard. There are 50 public bodies - or their agents - detailed and listed in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, as amended, that can ask a person...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...it more efficient and, in the main, I believe it has done that. I would regret if anybody finds it more difficult to access public services by the use of electronically communicating or using the public services card as an identifier. I am not sure where school transport appeals came into the narrative. A public services card has no place and never has had a place in school transport...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (5 Dec 2017)

Regina Doherty: A Public Services Card is a physical token that may be issued to a person once they successfully complete a SAFE 2 identity verification process. SAFE 2 identity verification is currently required for: - Access to Social Welfare Services (including Child Benefit and Treatment Benefits) - First time adult passport applicants in the state - Replacement of lost, stolen or damaged passports...

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

Regina Doherty: ...providing access to the billions of euro, of which the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is in charge and which it is giving to people through all of its schemes. The public services card is only issued after someone goes through the SAFE 2 registration process. In addition to acting as a token that an individual's identity has been verified to SAFE 2 standard,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chairman and members for the invitation to attend this morning to discuss the public services card, PSC. I am looking forward to the questions of committee members on what is a very important topic. Before discussing the public services card, it might be useful to give a brief overview of the history of the card, the background to the recent report by the Data Protection...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: It is not mandatory or compulsory for anybody in the State to have a public services card. It is not mandatory or compulsory for one person to have a card. It has, however, always been necessary for people using high-value or personalised public services, which are now considered to be online public services, to be able to prove their identity. In order to ensure that services are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: A Public Services Card is issued to an individual following a robust registration process to establish and verify the person’s identity. Part of the required evidence of identity for a non-EEA national to get a Public Services Card is a current valid passport. The person concerned has been asked to attend with her passport, but has not yet provided it. I hope this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (6 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...ongoing in the Department. The data specialist was an expert in SAS, the statistical software package used by the Department. I can confirm the data specialist was not in engaged in respect of the Public Services Card and/or reports examining the Public Services Card. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (17 Apr 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...leave and also to provide cover for some staff availing of the shorter working year scheme. They are also recruited to alleviate work pressure in certain areas, and to assist in the roll-out of the Public Services Card project. Temporary contracts are offered for a fixed term or a fixed purpose. In the case of a fixed purpose contract the term can vary according to the purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (27 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...are paid weekly in arrears in a post office by Electronic Information Transfer (EIT) where it must be collected in person. Payment is collected in cash, once the customer has provided their Public Services Card or Social Services Card. If using a Social Services Card, a customer will also require photographic ID. The only exceptions are: - where a person is employed casually - a person...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...their social welfare payments. Social welfare claimants must present one of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection payment cards when collecting payments. These cards are; the Public Services Card, the Social Services Card and the Temporary Payment Card. The Public Services Card, or PSC, is an identity token, issued by the Department, following a face to face...

Seanad: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: I do not think the Senator will be surprised by what I tell her. She suggested that some people in the Department have concerns about the public services card but they do not. There are some people in Ireland who consistently express their concerns with the public services card, but they do not come from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and the Senator and I both...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (24 Apr 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...Protection but also for an increasing number of public services provided by other State agencies – for example the Passport office. Once a person is registered to SAFE2 they can be issued with a Public Services Card (PSC). While it is a matter for each public service provider to determine the appropriate level of identity verification required for each of its services, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (10 Oct 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Public Services Card (PSC) has been introduced to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently and with a minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving their privacy to the maximum extent possible. The PSC is designed to replace other cards within the public sector such as the free travel pass and the social services card of this Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Public Services Card (PSC) was provided for in legislation in 1998 when it was introduced alongside the PPS Number to replace the previous Revenue and Social Insurance number (RSI) and the Social Service Card (SSC).  The Attorney General’s Office advises that the legislation underpinning the PSC is clear and provides a strong legal basis for the existing and continued use of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: In October 2017 the Data Protection Commission commenced an investigation into the standard authentication framework environment, SAFE, and public services card process. It delivered its final report to the Department on 15 August 2019. On 17 September the Department published the report, together with a summary of its own response to the findings made in the report. As I stated earlier...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The purpose of the public services card, PSC, is to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently and less duplication of having to give the same information to a variety of different public bodies, while at the same time preserving their privacy to the maximum extent possible. The purpose of SAFE 2 registration, as underpinned by legislation, is to verify the...