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Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: I am sure the Minister of State will agree that this legislation is the vehicle for data sharing. A key element of the available databases is the database that is acquired via the public services card. Prior to there being such a card, data were acquired in different ways through the direct collection of information and multiple uses of the data were allowed. However, this Government has...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Joan Burton: ...happen. There is no point in all this talk about data protection and data respect and so on unless some kind of explanation is forthcoming. As a matter of correction, I wish to point out that when the public services card was introduced it was brought in by the then Department of Social Protection. It is not an identity card. There was no requirement in law on anyone to provide it...

Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the further rollout of the public services card; his further plans to protect the privacy of persons using the card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10869/18]

Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Minister, now that his Department is running the public services card project under the strategic communications strategy, how he proposes to reassure ordinary people across the country who use the public services card efficiently that their data are safe and protected and will not be handed on to other bodies.

Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I was the Minister responsible for introducing the public services card. Ireland spends about €20 billion a year on social welfare payments to people. The public services card has enabled a much better quality of service, with greater speed and effectiveness. This applies particularly to the free travel enjoyed by pensioners and the disabled. People can now do their business with a...

Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: In this strategic communications, spin-driven Government the Minister would be well advised to rethink what is happening reputationally to the public services card. It is extremely important to people who are using it, particularly our pensioners for their travelling needs, and others who are using it for a range of services. It is particularly important in terms of the €20 billion...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Votes 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (22 Feb 2018)

Joan Burton: ...other counties in the south east blacked out, as well as Kerry? Will the Minister give us a more detailed explanation as to why that is the case? I was the Minister for Social Protection when the public services card was initiated. One of the reasons for developing the card was to provide a decent, respectful and humane service to people like pensioners who use public transport. In...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Card (18 Jan 2018)

Joan Burton: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his Department's work with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in respect of the roll out of the public services card in 2017; the outstanding work to be completed with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2233/18]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Joan Burton: ...to hear from the Minister of State on this matter. Time has passed and it is now possible to carry out a lot of data collection and identification processes. For example, the development of the public services card should allow for relatively easy verification. In the school about which Deputy Michael McGrath was speaking the parents of a majority of the children would be in receipt of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Passport Applications (14 Apr 2016)

Joan Burton: The Public Services Card (PSC) is designed to replace other cards within the public sector such as the social services card and free travel pass of this Department, and to make it easy for providers of public services to verify the identity of customer. The Passport Office has introduced a requirement for first-time adult applicants to be registered for a PSC in advance of applying for a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (26 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: .... There would be serious cost implications for reversing this decision and further time delays in pursing an alternative property at this stage. Teach O’Cleircin is the new location for the Public Services Card Centre. Neither my officials, nor the Office of Public Works, considered that the properties on offer in Ballybay could meet the Department’s requirements and a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Properties (19 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: ...; the need to ensure that the existing/new building could serve the public (for taking Public Services Cards) and accommodate the additional staff that were being assigned to the unit. The provision of a Public Services Card Centre for the public in County Monaghan was an urgent business need of this Department. The OPW, our procurer of property, had other issues to be addressed,...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection (Supplementary) (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Burton: .... We propose to continue them on an ongoing basis. The employment control framework figure at the end of the year is 6,350, and we also have 20 people from the Garda and 218 people working on the public services card, which gives a total of 6,588. The actual number at the end of October was 6,550. Even now we are recruiting in or around another 40 people. We expect that process to be...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (1 Dec 2015)

Joan Burton: Section 263 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended), provides the legal basis for the issuance and use of the Public Services Card (PSC). Depending on the variant, a PSC contains one or two secure chips. All PSCs contain a contact chip, which can exchange information securely with a terminal (and, if the terminal is online, with remote servers), via a reader in which...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Properties (5 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: ...from five locations which is now complete with 85 staff now in place. All office space in the building is occupied and additional customer service facilities such as Integrated Reception and Public Services Card stations have been developed. In addition, a training and conference space has been fully developed and equipped. The Department is in regular contact with local groups and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: ...for the purposes of access to public services. This programme of work, which is known as the Standard Authentication Framework Environment or SAFE for short, also provides for the introduction of a Public Services Card (PSC) to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently and with a minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving their privacy...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (29 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: The Public Services Card (PSC) is designed to replace other cards within the public sector such as the social services card and free travel pass of this Department, and to make it easy for providers of public services to verify the identity of customer. A PSC is issued following a registration process which involves the capture of an individual’s photograph and signature and the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (22 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: ...in data collection and make recommendations for improving data collection; 5. Examine the issue of fraud and control and make recommendations for improvements, particularly in the context of the introduction of the Public Services Card; 6. Examine the levels of funding for the Free Travel scheme in the context of overall exchequer funding for transport and the respective roles of PSO and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: ...with a long-term housing need from Rent Supplement to the Housing Assistance Payment, where appropriate. - Continued implementation of the Compliance and Anti-Fraud Initiative 2014-2018. - Continued roll-out of the Public Services Card Tackling poverty among children and families is a Government priority. The Department of Social Protection is working with other Departments to implement a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Identity Card (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: ...for the purposes of access to public services. This programme of work, which is known as Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or SAFE for short, also provided for the introduction of a Public Services Card (PSC) to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently and with a minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving their privacy to...