Results 1-20 of 117 for "public service card"

Written Answers — Public Service Cards: Public Service Cards (20 Apr 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, the specifications for a Public Service Card (PSC) under the Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or SAFE, programme. The specification provides for identification features, including a photograph. The aim is to develop a card that acts as a key for access to public services in general,...

Written Answers — Public Service Cards: Public Service Cards (25 May 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, the specifications for a Public Service Card (PSC) under the Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or SAFE, programme. The specification provides for identification features, including a photograph. The aim is to develop a card that acts as a key for access to public services in general,...

Written Answers — Public Service Card: Public Service Card (29 Jun 2010) See 2 other results from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, the specifications for a Public Service Card (PSC) under the Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or SAFE, programme. The specification provides for identification features, including a photograph. The aim is to develop a card that acts as a key for access to public services in general,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I thank Deputy Moynihan. Intreo centres manage the front-line delivery of the standard authentication framework environment - the long version of SAFE - registration. This includes registration for public service card issuing and renewal and the processing of applications for personal public service numbers. Demand for these services remains high. The public service card is a physical...

Written Answers — Public Service Cards: Public Service Cards (1 Mar 2007) See 1 other result from this answer

Séamus Brennan: My Department, together with the Department of Finance, is managing a programme of work to develop a Public Service Card framework. The programme of work is known as SAFE — Standard Authentication Framework Environment. The term "framework" is being used to emphasise that a single Public Service Card is not envisaged but rather a branded standard within which individual initiatives can...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7:In page 10, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following:"(6) A specified body may not make presentation of a public service card or access to a person’s public service identity the sole or exclusive basis by which a person may confirm their identity in order to conduct a transaction or access a service.". The amendment is on the public services identity...

Written Answers — Public Service Identity Cards: Public Service Identity Cards (19 Jan 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Hanafin: Legislative provisions in relation to the introduction of the Public Service Card have been included in Section 263 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended by Section 32 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007). These specify that the Minister for Social and Family Affairs may issue a Public Service Card in the format that she deems fit, with the person's name, personal...

Written Answers — Public Services Card: Public Services Card (23 Feb 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Hanafin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 120 together. Legislative provisions in relation to the introduction of the Public Service Card have been included in Section 263 of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 (as amended by Section 32 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2007). These specify that the Minister for Social and Family Affairs may issue a Public Service Card in the format...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (4 May 2005)

Séamus Brennan: The development of a public service card was one of a number of objectives set for the Reach agency at the launch of the Reach initiative in 1999 and 2000. The objectives included the establishment and use of the personal public service, PPS, number as the common customer identifier and the development and acceptance of the public service card as the citizen's key to services. Reach pursued...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015) See 2 other results from this debate

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue: Yes, absolutely. The public service card is based on the public service identity set, prescribed in legislation. While certain information is on the face of the card, including the photo, other elements of identification can be accessed and confirmed when the card is swiped.

Written Answers — Identity Cards: Identity Cards (11 Nov 2009)

Mary Hanafin: The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, the specifications for a Public Service Card (PSC) under the Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or (SAFE), programme. The specification provides for identification features, including a photograph. The aim is to develop a card that acts as a key for access to public services in general,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013) See 5 other results from this debate

..., equipping our offices and so forth. We have somewhere in the order of 80 to 90 stations where we can capture images for face to face issuance of public service cards. We also have two dedicated public service card centres in Dublin, one in Gandon House and other on North Cumberland Street. To date, we have issued approximately 160,000 public service cards and our target is to issue...

Written Answers — Public Service Cards: Public Service Cards (9 Feb 2006)

Séamus Brennan: The Department is co-ordinating an interdepartmental initiative to develop a public service card. This programme of work is known as the SAFE, standard authentication framework environment, initiative. The process is intended to produce a framework for public cards which will provide a branded standard for cards within which individual public service cards can converge. Over time it is...

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

Marian Harkin: ...x2019;re almost there. You can set up your verified MyGovID account using your public services card at www.mygovid.ie. Then comes the final kicker: Don’t yet have a Public Services Card? You can book a Public Service Card (PSC) appointment by phoning your local Intreo office. I wish the Minister were here because this is a three-card trick. Who decided that a public services...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Data (11 Jul 2018)

Simon Coveney: ...to produce a Public Services Card has been an important step in protecting against fraud and identify theft and in upholding the integrity of the Irish passport. A copy of the applicant’s Public Service Card is required for applications that fall under the above three categories to be successfully processed in all instances and alternative forms of identification cannot be accepted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Mr. Tim Duggan: With the paper pass there was undoubtedly a level of abuse that the new public service card is significantly helping to minimise, if not prevent. I cannot give figures for the level of fraudulent activity but no paper passes have been issued since 2014, except in dire emergencies. Anyone who has qualified for the public travel scheme since then has been issued with a public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

.... That has always been the intention since the Government made that specific decision back in 2005. It is absolutely also the case that private sector bodies would not be allowed to request a public service card for any commercial transactions, and the way that we ensure that that happens is by making sure that only those bodies specified in legislation can seek it. There is no danger of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Question Heading for question(s) 1827,1839,1840,1842,1847,1868,1871,1896 (11 Sep 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1847. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to her public statement, the legal basis within the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, that makes a public service card mandatory in order to interact with her department; if a public service card is necessary for all interactions with her department; the reason the operational guidelines for both job seeker's...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 Nov 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...clear at the time that An Garda Síochána would not be authorised to request or accept the PSC as proof of identity from a member of the public. The Minister at the time advised the Dáil that "... the public service card will not be a general identity card as the provisions in the Bill make it illegal to use it apart from accessing public services. For instance, it may not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Sep 2014)

Joan Burton: ...Social Services Card (SSC) of this Department and to make it easy for providers of public services to verify the identity of customers. Considerable progress has been made in the roll out of the Public Service Card. Approx. 925,000 PSCs have been produced to date. These include c.241,000 Free Travel variants. A PSC is currently issued following a registration process which is called...