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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.

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: An entire team of people across the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, my Department and the Office of the Attorney General was responsible for sending the response back to the report from the Data Protection Commissioner. What was the second question?

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: I do not why that was done to be honest. We provided the information as it was required. I said on previous occasions that the response to the original report in December 2018 was extensive. It went to 470 pages and so we replied with all the information requested of us and some. What was the last question the Deputy asked me?

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: There is a "but" coming.

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 11 and 39 together. I had assumed the Deputy had mixed up total contributions with automatic enrolment because the changes to total contributions is due in quarter 3 of 2020 and automatic enrolment is due in quarter 1 of 2022. The Deputies will know from the CSO's latest figures in relation to Q3 of 2018 that the rate of supplementary pension coverage...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Sometimes, I have an unfortunate turn of phrase that does not come out quite in the way I had expected. I am getting a reputation for it. I meant that in a good way. I referred to the number of people who came to us and said it was great but suggested we do this and tweak that. We got good feedback in response to the consultation, not just from the big insurance companies. A 16 year...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pensions Reform (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: One of the things we have not finalised yet is the management of the CPA. That has still to be determined. We are considering some of the suggestions that were made on how we look after that. I want whoever manages it to have the full confidence of both this House and the people who will give it their money. That is probably the most important thing for me to do. The full-time...