Results 1-12 of 12 for "public services card" speaker:Mattie McGrath

Did you mean: "public service card" speaker:185?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Nov 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of or who is applying for a social welfare payment is obliged to get a Public Services Card given that an investigation is currently underway by the Data Protection Office which is focusing on the use of the public service identity dataset and other systems linked to the card such as single customer...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (9 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when full appointments will be available for those applying for the public services card; the reason for the continued delay in making appointments available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23001/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (14 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...available to persons who cannot get an appointment to renew their licence prior to the expiry date due to the unavailability of appointment slots and in cases in which the person does not hold a public services card and therefore cannot apply online; if persons who cannot get an appointment prior to their expiry date will have their licence extended until appointments become available...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (5 Nov 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 1090. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the tender process for the public services card adhered to public procurement guidelines insofar as a company (details supplied) appears to have been the sole bidder for the second generation card contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45114/19]

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...quango queens but he appoints two more members to the authority without any accountability. I give the Minister credit for standing down the whole codology about linking the licence to the PPS number and the public services card. After €1.8 million was wasted, he pulled the plug on it. I commend him for that. Who has been reprimanded? Who has been disciplined? I asked all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Bus Services: Discussion (30 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...the Dáil during the debate on the transport Bill, the Minister and Deputy Heydon welcomed a representation from Fine Gael. Somebody operating under the auspices of the Minister spent €2 million trying to link the public services card to driver licences. To his credit the Minister pulled it, but €2 million was wasted on a nonsense scheme. There are millions for...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...going on over there. Has dysfunction also spread to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport? The Road Safety Authority has come under intense pressure from civil servants to make use of the public services card mandatory for all driving licence applications. They spent €2 million on the project before the Minister, Deputy Shane Ross, pulled the plug on it. What, in God's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (15 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: ...Affairs and Social Protection if she will address concerns that section 5 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 undermines privacy by allowing private bodies to use the public services card as a form of identification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20796/18]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...not good enough and we wonder why people are cynical about politics. It is unacceptable in the extreme. Another section that has generated significant concern is the one dealing with the public services card and the circumstances in which it will be mandatory. Much has been made of the Minister's celebrated remark that the card is mandatory but not compulsory. What is the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (29 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why it is necessary to provide an up-to-date Irish passport with an application under the public services card scheme; why an out-of-date passport, where available, is not acceptable as proof of citizenship, particularly where a welfare recipient has no further need for a passport; if he will meet the cost of acquiring a new passport solely for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (24 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in passport applications on the grounds that applicants have not submitted a public services card, although they have submitted other photographic identification such as a driving licence; why he is specifically requesting the card where other photographic identification is available and has been submitted and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (31 Mar 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 211. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is reasonable for a citizen to be required to take a day off work to attend an appointment to obtain a new public services card; if provision will be made to have out-of-hours appointments for those who are working full-time and in receipt of certain contributory pensions; the provisions available to assist with transport...