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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (24 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to commission an independent review of the roll-out to date of the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58026/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (7 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 29. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 629 of 28 July 2020, the status of the cost-benefit analysis of the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48655/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Jul 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the cost-benefit analysis undertaken for the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18991/20]

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)

Catherine Connolly: I did not want to get into the public services card and an enforcement notice will probably be served on the Department. I welcome Mr. McKeon's openness and accountability in the general presentation but it seemed to desert him with the public services card matter. It is just a comment. We have already heard about the collateral undermining of the Comptroller and Auditor General and the...

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)

Catherine Connolly: .... The issue of privacy, where a case is pending, is not a matter for discussion today but there are many other issues, such as function creep and no overall plan. The commissioner states that the public services card project has many moving parts and that the complexity of logic and terminology attaching to that makes any analysis, legal or otherwise, challenging. It was to start out as...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...planning is the development of a business case, setting out the objectives to be achieved and explaining the basis for the decision to proceed. There is no single business case documented for the public services card, PSC. The Comptroller and Auditor General is very fair and says that elements of a good practice business case were included in several documents; however, there were a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the services for which a public services card is required; the categories and details of data contained on the card; the Departments and or agencies with which such information may be shared; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38867/18]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Connolly: This issue of the public services card and the special report that was done has been huge. I do not know whether it was a special report but I have lost track of the cost of it. Was it €60 million?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Sharing Arrangements (20 Feb 2018)

Catherine Connolly: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the public service identity database and the public services card fully comply with EU standards and the general data protection regulation due to take effect in May 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8440/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (28 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overall cost to date of the public services card, including production, activation and all other associated costs; the life span of the card; the nature of the contract with the service provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50526/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 68. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the results of a cost benefit analysis that has been undertaken in respect of the public services card, PSC; the number of cards that have been issued to date.; the cost of same; the number that have been activated; the cost incurred to activate the cards; the business case presented for activation; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (7 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons engaging with Caranua will be required to present a public services card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46840/17]

Other Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the public services card; the circumstances in which the card will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40462/17]

Other Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I ask the Minister to a make a statement on the public services card. While he addressed the issue earlier, I ask him to make a statement in response to the serious concerns raised by the Comptroller and Auditor General in his report. The Minister referred to the report but did not refer to the issues highlighted in it regarding the serious concerns expressed by the Data Protection...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...were to read the transcript of the relevant meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts and the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, he would see that no business case was provided for the public services card and the costs of the project or its positives were never evaluated. The estimated cost of the public services card now stands at €60 million. I am sure it is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Page 10 of the Secretary General's opening statement reads: "The Government's Digital Services Gateway together with the Public Services Card and MyGovID, our online identity service, are key to Ireland becoming an exemplar in digital transactions." I disagree with that language because what I have read is certainly not an exemplar. I want to get this matter straight. Is the Department...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016)

Catherine Connolly: ...í are on the streets of Galway stopping cars. The report says they are stopping 4X4s because of cheaters. That is an unhelpful message and I might come back to it later. The roll-out of the public services card seems to have been an unmitigated disaster and I choose those words reluctantly. Following expenditure of €60 million, everybody still does not have a card. Is...