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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...European Union. Deputy Shanahan is spot on in relation to e-health. A lack of an individual health identifier is a real deficiency in our health service. We have a really good PPS system and public service card which, for many reasons, have not been extended or replicated for health. One of the outcomes or dividends from this pandemic must be universal patient registration with a...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...can be processed much more quickly and in fact, almost two thirds of people who claim online will get a decision instantaneously. If, in their constituency work, members come across people who have made a paper application and are still waiting for an answer, they can still put in an online application. An applicant does need a public service card to do so but that is all. I would...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ..., that person will get paid in arrears so nobody will lose money, although there may be a delay in getting it. The online system can produce an instant answer in two thirds of cases and all that is required is the public service card, PSC, which requires a visit to the local Intreo centre. That is all it requires and signing up to www.MyWelfare.ie. I have encouraged people to do this...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...that the totality of Intreo services will be offered from two locations in the town. These services include income support, employment support, social welfare inspectorate, community welfare and a public service card facility. Expenditure on this Intreo project amounts to €0.9m. The OPW has leased this property from the HSE with effect from the 1st of January 2015.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (19 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...data quality, accuracy and completeness and it is intended to exploit and reuse the significant investment in data collection and verification being made by the Minister for Social Protection in the Public Service Card initiative. The Data Protection Commissioner was consulted while the Health Identifiers Act was being drafted and will be consulted at appropriate stages of the...