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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...need to look more closely at those on the live register and match the skills they currently have with the vacancies on community employment schemes. I am open to doing that. On the issue of the public services card, I disagree with the Senator who thinks we are rushing the uptake of the cards through before legislation will be enacted in the summer of 2018. The project started in 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: My Department has prepared responses to the list of questions submitted by the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the Public Services Card. These responses are currently being proofed and will issue to the Data Protection Commissioner shortly. Once the Data Protection Commissioner has had an opportunity to consider these responses they will be published on my Department’s website.

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...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: The Deputy is absolutely right, but it is not a change. I repeat that the public services card is to do nothing other than access public services. The reason the Deputy gets authenticated the first and only time is that if he goes through the SAFE process and he proves he is John Curran, he will never have to do it again. The Deputy will have proven with the Department of Employment...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority 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 with a minimal duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving their privacy to the maximum extent possible. The purpose of SAFE 2 registration, underpinned by legislation, is to verify a person's identity to a substantial level of assurance. Once identity...

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

Regina Doherty: ...: Safe 0= No assurance of identity. Safe 1= Balance of probabilities (the minimum authentication level for the allocation of a PPS Number). Safe 2= Substantial assurance (the minimum authentication level for issuing a Public Services Card). Safe 3= Beyond reasonable doubt. The Department operates a number of methods to SAFE 2 register a person. The usual method involves a combination of...

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

Regina Doherty: Section 263 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended) provides for the data items that can be inscribed on the face or encoded on the chip of the Public Services Card. That data is part of the Public Service Identity (PSI) dataset as set out in section 262 of the Act. The PSI data set is stored in enterprise class databases maintained in my Department’s secure...

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

Regina Doherty: ...known through these various phases. The first phase of the project from 2005 to 2007 involved the research and design of a card, the development of the detailed functional specification required for the Public Services Card (PSC), and a project proposal for the development and deployment of the PSC and associated infrastructure. In 2007, the second phase, to procure a managed services...

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

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 66 and 73 together. A Public Services Card may be issued to an individual who has successfully authenticated their identity to SAFE Level 2, i.e., to a substantial level of assurance. I have been informed by my colleague the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that “it is not mandatory for residents in Ireland to be SAFE 2 registered, though...

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

Regina Doherty: A Public Services Card may be issued to an individual who has successfully authenticated their identity to SAFE Level 2 (substantial level of assurance). Roll-out of the SAFE registration programme commenced in 2011 and initial concentration has been on individuals who are resident in Ireland or otherwise have a requirement for SAFE registration (e.g. residents of Northern Ireland who...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Sharing Arrangements (20 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...: Safe 0= No assurance of identity Safe 1= Balance of probabilities (the minimum authentication level for the allocation of a PPS Number) Safe 2= Substantial assurance (the minimum authentication level for issuing a Public Services Card) Safe 3= Beyond reasonable doubt The Department operates a number of methods to SAFE 2 register a person (i.e. verify their identity to a substantial level...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Question Heading for question(s) 1827,1839,1840,1842,1847,1868,1871,1896 (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...Safe 0= No assurance of identity - Safe 1= Balance of probabilities (the minimum authentication level for the allocation of a PPS Number) - Safe 2= Substantial assurance (the minimum authentication level for issuing a Public Services Card) - Safe 3= Beyond reasonable doubt The Department operates a number of methods to SAFE 2 register a person. The usual method involves a combination of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...every county in the State. In-person SAFE registrations currently exceed 12,000 weekly. Currently the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has sanctioned a total of up to 218 posts for the Public Services Card project. These posts include both temporary and permanent roles, and the numbers and locations of deployed staff are kept under constant review to ensure the best use of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ..., 1930 and 1931 together. In all, approximately 2.8m Public Services Cards (PSC) have issued since SAFE registration commenced in 2011. At the time of the commencement of the roll-out of the Public Services Card (PSC) in 2011, the then Data Protection Commissioner requested that controls be put place to ensure that PSCs were getting to the correct people. As a result, the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...to take Questions Nos. 1870, 1936, 1938 and 1939 together. Section 263 of the Social Welfare Consolidation, Act (as amended) provides that: (a) the following information is inscribed on the Public Services Card (PSC): forename, surname, Personal Public Service (PPS) Number, photograph, signature, card issue number and expiry date; and (b) the following information is encoded...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...Authentication Framework environment – or SAFE. A person who successfully completes a SAFE 2 registration process (i.e., verifies their identity to a substantial level of assurance) is issued with a Public Services Card (PSC). In the case of the Department of Social Protection’s own services, the legislation governing identity verification for existing claimants is set out...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...of such activity. After three months the list would be removed from the Department’s website which will be refreshed. Section 5 introduces a number of changes to the arrangements governing the use of the public services card, PSC. It will allow for a cardholder’s date of birth, solely at their own request, to be inscribed on the PSC, in order that it can then be used by...

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 Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (11 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...that this work identified some €41 million in fraud overpayments in 2016. Work will also continue on a number of measures to prevent fraud from entering the social welfare system. The continued roll-out of the Public Services Card has considerably reduced the potential for identity fraud. The use of data analytics software and techniques, improved data-matching capacity and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Data (27 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...It is possible, however, to collect some non-identifying data on overall usage where the integrated ticketing system (ITS) is enabled by participating transport operators and customers are using the new Public Services Card Free Travel (PSC-FT) variant rather than the old form of paper free travel pass. The rollout of the ITS by the National Transport Authority to travel operators is...