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National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022)

Joan Collins: .... Can one imagine? Public services being declared a welfare market and private companies are waiting to pounce on them. The motion continues also states, "a verified MyGovlD account, which requires a Public Services Card (PSC), is needed to avail of the online service despite a previous Data Protection Commission investigation into the legality of the PSC", which the Minister of...

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

Joan Collins: ...old route of getting one's two photographs, etc. Has that been the case in all circumstances? Maybe the Minister can also clarify the following point for me. I have read that one needs to have a public services card to apply for the national childcare scheme. Is it correct to state there is an alternative paper application process but that does not start until January and there is no...

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

Joan Collins: I do not have a public services card.

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

Joan Collins: No, thank you. If I go to Revenue, can I access information without a public services card by using other traditional means?

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

Joan Collins: 65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the ongoing issues relating to the public services card and the Data Protection Commissioner, in particular as it relates to the requirement for a card to access the new national childcare scheme. [43639/19]

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

Joan Collins: 19. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will comply with the legal directions issued to her by the Data Protection Commission regarding the public services card. [38795/19]

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

Joan Collins: 38. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card will not expire on a particular date after it has been issued and reapplied for by a person. [38804/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...been asked and I will not repeat them. The delegates seem to be emphasising that people go through the SAFE process. I have a question about a person has not gone through it and not received a public services card. I know that there is a system in place in the post office where one ticks a series of boxes, one of which concerns identification. I presume a person has to tick it to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...volunteering to use their public services car with electricity and other companies. It is a grey area. The company could then state it was seeking a form of identification and that it required the public services card because it was the best form identification there was. Things would start to go askew. Therefore, people are hugely concerned. I have received many calls in the past...

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

Joan Collins: With respect to the Minister, she is saying that the public services card, PSC, is going to become the predominant identification for accessing public services and beyond. I was talking to a young lad recently who wanted to apply for a driver's licence. He was told that he had to have a PSC. That means that there is a requirement for a PSC in that contradictory sense which the Minister has...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the public services card is mandatory or compulsory; and her views on whether elderly persons and other persons depending on social welfare payments should have their payments terminated for not agreeing to accept the card. [8306/18]

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...posed by Deputy Curran. I do not know why the questions were not grouped. I met a lady last week who said she had asked for legal direction as to why she had to go through the process of getting a public services card. She had proof of identity, she was able to produce her passport and her marriage certificate and she did not get her payment. There has to be some clarity regarding this...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: There is a contradiction here. If a person does not provide the necessary SAFE 2 level identification - not the SAFE 1 level - then that person does not have a public services card. Is the SAFE 2 level saying that a person has to have a public services card? Will the Minister clarify if a person could use his or her passport or driver's licence? I shall give an example. The number of...

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

Joan Collins: 55. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is a legal requirement to accept a public services card if a card is needed to legally access some services; if the single customer view can be legally used for data sharing; if so, the legislation in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8338/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: ...serious discussion and debate in this building. The primary legislation that needs to be in place has not been passed yet. That is very serious, and I am very concerned about it. I do not have a public services card and I will not get one until I am confident that it is safe, secure and has all the legislative backup it needs. The data on the cards can be breached so easily, as we have...

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

Joan Collins: ...point that most of its provisions are non-controversial as they contain technical amendments to the Social Welfare Acts. However, I am concerned about a number of the Bill's provisions. The public services card is an issue. Many people do not want to see the national use of a public services card. There is a data protection question around this as well. I believe we are moving ever...