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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. McKeon and his officials. I have a few questions on the public services card. Mr. McKeon might be aware we had the Data Protection Commissioner before us a number of weeks ago and we put questions to her on this issue as well. She published a report a number of months ago and made a number of directions to the Department on foot of that report. There were three high-level...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: ...Commissioner referred to this too. The Department's response to the Data Protection Commissioner at that point was that it represented a collateral undermining of Mr. McCarthy's report on the public services card. To be clear, that would not be Mr. McCarthy's view?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I apologise for being in and out of the Dáil Chamber and committees. I have two or three questions on the public services card and JobPath. Mr. McKeon might have answered some earlier but I will ask specific questions I have. In a previous response, Mr. McKeon said that there is no halo of infallibility around anybody. We can accept that, whether we are talking about Mr. McKeon, the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: ...of that. I agree, therefore, that we should write back to Mr. Watt to emphasise again the questions we put and the answers we want. We are not seeking an appraisal from him on how wonderful the public services card is for users. We were not asking that question.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (1 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the public services card will soon be required to make an appeal to his Department in relation to the provision of access to school transport schemes in view of the fact that under the current system of school transport appeals, if an appeal is submitted online or offline, no identity validation or description is required; the way...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Ms Dixon mentioned earlier that the commission publishes various reports, one of which was the final investigation report into the public services card. We examine the issue from a value-for-money perspective, although that is not Ms Dixon’s remit and I have questions for her about the process and the report. The Committee of Public Accounts has dealt with this issue previously, as...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: We have lengthy correspondence and I have a letter about the public services card, PSC. There is a hearing about it next week and I wondered whether there was a chance to have a discussion, at some point, about that meeting, particularly in the context of some of the issues that have been raised since the publication of the report. I have in mind a quick couple of minutes on the matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: The Data Protection Commission, DPC, was due to appear before the committee routinely anyway. The public services card issue has since emerged, with a report on it published the day before yesterday. The issue has been in the public domain in recent months. Will the Chairman clarify what we can deal with at next week's meeting with the DPC? A section in the report refers to a chapter in a...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Administration (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if a public services card is a requirement in order to make an application for a renewal passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19339/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 May 2017)

David Cullinane: 321. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures his Department has put in place to enable persons that wish to apply for a passport but that do not have a public services card and are not resident in the State, such as residents of Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Canada and Australia, once the requirement to have a public services card to apply for a...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2014)

David Cullinane: ...the control of any such scheme administered by An Post may be transferred by An Post to the Minister.",(e) in section 263A, by inserting the following subsection after subsection (6): "(7) Where a public services card issued to a person is presented to An Post for the purposes of obtaining payment of benefit, An Post may withhold payment, confiscate the card and surrender it as soon as...