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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...Bank closed last year, she was refused a bank account by all of the other banks in Ireland because she does not have a passport to prove who she is, and despite having other forms such as a digital public services card and a driving licence, she was still refused. A huge number of people are still using cash, in the main, mature citizens. The lady in question has to take her pension out...

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

Regina Doherty: The SAFE registration process, which my Department uses to authenticate a person's identity, is a face-to-face process which results in the issuing of a Public Services Card (PSC). Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, my Department has temporarily suspended the SAFE registration process. This decision was taken in order to comply with HSE and WHO guidelines in respect of social...

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

Regina Doherty: The SAFE registration process, which my Department uses to authenticate a person's identity, is a face-to-face process which results in the issuing of a Public Services Card (PSC). Once a person has authenticated their identity in this manner, they can set up a verified MyGovID account, which allows them access to high-value Government online services, including those delivered through the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: On 6thDecember 2019, my Department received enforcement proceedings from the DPC in respect of the August 2019 Report of the Commission on the Public Services Card. The Department filed an appeal against the Enforcement Notice within the timeframe provided to do so. As the matter is now before the Courts, it would be inappropriate to make any further comment. I trust this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 May 2020)

Regina Doherty: The SAFE registration process, which my Department uses to authenticate a person's identity, is a face-to-face process which results in the issuing of a Public Services Card (PSC). Since the outbreak of the Covid 19 Pandemic, my Department has temporarily suspended the SAFE registration process. This decision was taken in order to comply with HSE and WHO guidelines in respect of social...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (5 Mar 2020)

Regina Doherty: My Department writes to all Public Services Card (PSC) holders, including those entitled to Free Travel, 90 days before their Card expires, inviting them to renew their Card. Customers are offered a choice of renewing by post or by attending an office of the Department. Where a customer applies to have their PSC renewed, the new Card issues a few days before the old card expires. If the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Public Services Card (PSC) is proof that a person has authenticated their identity at an office of my Department. A person can submit their PSC to prove their identity each time they transact with the public bodies specified in social welfare legislation that use the PSC. Where a person has already authenticated their identity and been issued a PSC, subsequently wishes to revert to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: Without trying to be rude, I was not really sure what the Deputy meant by "unrolling". If it is what I think she means, as in whether we have rowed back on the public services card, then we have not. If that is what the Deputy means, then the answer to the question of the cost of unrolling the PSC is that there has not been any cost because we have not unrolled it, as it were.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (4 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: The Public Services Card (PSC) was provided for in legislation in 1998 when it was introduced alongside the PPS Number to replace the previous Revenue and Social Insurance Number and the Social Services Card.  It acts as an identifier for access to a broad range of public services.  Successive Governments have since reaffirmed this policy both in Government decisions and through...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...guidelines. The RSA is a specified body listed in Schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended).  From 20th May 2018, the RSA guidelines state that a driving licence, passport or Public Services Card may be accepted as a form of photographic identification by persons presenting a vehicle for testing. I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.

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

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chairman and members for the invitation to attend this morning to discuss the public services card, PSC. I am looking forward to the questions of committee members on what is a very important topic. Before discussing the public services card, it might be useful to give a brief overview of the history of the card, the background to the recent report by the Data Protection...

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

Regina Doherty: As I said earlier, as the lead Department that manages the data, we have a greater responsibility for implementation of the policy on the usage of the public services card than any other individual Department or line Minister. However, I do not have responsibility for telling the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Transport, Tourism and Sport, Agriculture, Food and the Marine or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (19 Nov 2019)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 633 and 634 together. All costs in relation to the development and roll-out of the Public Services Card (PSC) project are incurred by my Department. The capital costs of the PSC project from 2010 to date (mid-November) is €32.64 million, excluding VAT  Staff costs for the same period are estimated at €37 million.  I trust...

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

Regina Doherty: ...the need to have multiple accounts and passwords with different public sector bodies. The Government’s eGovernment Strategy, published in 2017, states that the widespread adoption of the Public Services Card infrastructure, including its online counterpart MyGovID, to underpin access to public services by citizens is critical to the successful delivery of the eGovernment...

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

Regina Doherty: The Public Services Card (PSC) can only be requested by a body specified in Schedule 5 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, as amended, and only where that specified body has a transaction with the person concerned. Specified bodies are, in all cases, required to process and store data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018,...

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

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1063, 1066 and 1069 together. My Department does not have a policy to issue a Public Services Card (PSC) when a person reaches the age of 18 years. In cases where a person applied for and was issued a PSC before the age of 18, a new card issues when they turn 18. If a person under the age of 18 presents for SAFE registration, they must be accompanied by a...

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

Regina Doherty: ...my Department has fully complied with its legal obligations under EU law and Irish law with regard to the tender process for the implementation, production, personalisation and distribution of the Public Services Card (PSC). The request for tender was an open procurement which was advertised on eTenders, which is the Irish Government's electronic tendering platform administered by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: The public services card was provided for in legislation in 1998 when it was introduced alongside the personal public service, PPS, number to replace the previous revenue and social insurance number, the old RSI number, and the social service card, the old SSC. It acts as an identifier for access to a broad range of services. Successive Governments since have reaffirmed this policy both in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...it more efficient and, in the main, I believe it has done that. I would regret if anybody finds it more difficult to access public services by the use of electronically communicating or using the public services card as an identifier. I am not sure where school transport appeals came into the narrative. A public services card has no place and never has had a place in school transport...

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

Regina Doherty: The Public Services Card (PSC) was provided for in legislation in 1998 when it was introduced alongside the PPS Number to replace the previous Revenue and Social Insurance number (RSI) and the Social Service Card (SSC).  The PSC acts as an identifier for access to a broad range of public services. In October 2017, the DPC commenced an investigation into the SAFE/PSC process and delivered...