Results 21-40 of 244 for "public service card"

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will arrange to have an appointment system put in place for a public service card procedures in view of the inconvenience of the present limited number of places each day resulting in many disappointed clients and long waiting periods. [53565/22]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., and they are the leaders in digital technology in the world, at the recent conference that they said they hoped to emulate in Estonia what has happened in Ukraine. When we tried to introduce a public service card here some years ago, as the Cathaoirleach will recall, it caused consternation. At the hotel in Estonia, I was speaking to a young woman who told me she gets supermarket...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (13 Oct 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...on Budget 2023, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sanctioned additional resources for my Department for 2023 in response to the increased demand for our services, including demand for public service card appointments. The staffing needs for all areas within the Department are continuously reviewed, taking account of workloads, management priorities and the ongoing need to...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...overreach regarding the use of such data. I am conscious of an equivalent example, which we flagged as a data-protection concern at the time in question. The Minister might recall the issue of the public service card and the fact that data were being retained on the movement across the State of those with free travel. That was an example of a blanket provision and blanket retention,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...Social Protection the current cost of the free travel scheme and the number of participants; the projected cost of introducing free travel to students, namely, those aged 18 to 24 years who hold a public service card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (13 Jul 2022)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are in place for someone applying for a public service card who cannot attend a centre in person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38585/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...1,034,000 customers with direct eligibility. The estimated expenditure on free travel in 2022 is €95 million. Providing an estimate of the cost of extending the free travel scheme to all Students who hold a Public Service Card is not readily available as the cost is determined by the usage of the extra passes provided and not by the increased number. The fact that many...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Jul 2022)

Joan Collins: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) needs a public service card to renew their driving licence; and the reason they cannot use another form of identification. [36143/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (16 Jun 2022)

Paul Kehoe: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a public service card was incorrectly issued (details supplied). [31422/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (17 May 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides a centralised phone service for Public Service Card (PSC) and related queries from its Client Identity Services (CIS) office in Carrick-on-Shannon. My Department also provides telephone and in-person service to customers enquiring about the PSCs through its nationwide network of Intreo offices. In the Carrick-on-Shannon office, there are normally 17 staff assigned to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Apr 2022)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...can be made. When applying online, the same information is required, but verifying a person’s identity is more difficult. Accordingly, a verified MyGovID account, which requires a Public Service Card (PSC), is used to confirm a person’s identity and image in place of a face-to-face verification. Legal proceedings, in which the Department of Social Protection appealed...

National Driver Licence Service: Motion [Private Members] (2 Mar 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

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...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Dec 2021)

Mr. John McKeon: It depends on the outcome and on what is required. One of the difficulties will be that we currently have approximately 3.5 million users currently of the public service card, most of whom use it for welfare and other purposes. Trying to distinguish those who are only using it for purposes other than welfare might be quite difficult.

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ...at the time that Irish people like cash and want to have cash in their pocket. Now most businesses tell me they are taking in a fraction of the amount of cash compared to pre-pandemic times. The public service card was voluntary but mandatory. It was voluntary if one wanted to have one but it was mandatory if one wanted to get social welfare benefits. There were certain aspects to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...European Union. Deputy Shanahan is spot on in relation to e-health. A lack of an individual health identifier is a real deficiency in our health service. We have a really good PPS system and public service card which, for many reasons, have not been extended or replicated for health. One of the outcomes or dividends from this pandemic must be universal patient registration with a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (22 Apr 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...permit or driving licence provided they are an essential worker involved in the provision of essential services or essential retail outlets. All applicants can apply online if they have a MyGovID verified accout, which requires a Public Service Card. Approved Driving Instructors may only continue to provide lessons to those who have a driving test appointment.  

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (21 Apr 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...who they claim to be. It is also important that we minimise the need for people to authenticate their identity each time they need to enter into a transaction with a public body. A key aim of the Public Service Card (PSC) and the SAFE identity authentication process that underpins it is to deliver on these objectives. Since 1998, when legislative provision was first made for the PSC, it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (24 Mar 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...online, the same information is required and the challenge of verifying a person’s identity is more difficult than when someone presents in person at an NDLS office. A verified MyGovID account, which requires a Public Service Card (PSC), satisfies this requirement. A Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) is not an identity document.  A further extension to the expiry...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (4 Mar 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...information is required and the challenge of verifying a person’s identity is more difficult than when someone presents in person at an NDLS office. A verified MyGovID account, which requires a Public Service Card (PSC), satisfies this requirement.