Results 61-80 of 244 for "public service card"

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (17 Dec 2019)

Shane Ross: ...name is also required by way of a birth or marriage/civil partnership certificate which serves to verify the applicant’s previous name which they are now resuming the use of. A primary ID document in their previous surname (e.g., a passport or Public Service Card) is also acceptable.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (17 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...matching software used by my Department is supplied by Thales Ltd. This software facilitates facial image verification and comparison by my Department. To facilitate the SAFE registration and for Public Service Card (PSC) production processes, the Department uses software (Daon Capture/Cognitec Face VACS) to support the capture of a facial image using a webcam/camera and to accept images...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (10 Dec 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...Clerical Officers are employed to cover long term absences eg. maternity leave, carers leave, long term illness, shorter working year scheme and also to support projects such as the roll out of the Public Service Card, SWY and Total Pension Contribution project. Table 2 details the allocated salary budget for each year. This budget is set by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)

John Brady: In every contribution the Minister makes on the public services card she cites the 420,000 public service card holders as a massive success. She then refers to the 600,000 free travel journeys taken every week. She cites various statistics to back up her argument that the card is a massive success and says that is why people are using it. People had no alternative. The Chairman outlined...

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)

Seán Fleming: Yes, but the Department has this wonderful personal public service card, which answers all those questions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Anne Rabbitte: .... The Minister has piloted the scheme and it was being trialled when I asked about the issue last February. The childcare providers need to know that they are off the paper-based model. Is the public service card still part of the model of the new childcare scheme?

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...;Amendment of section 263 of Principal Act 6. Section 263 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):“(3) Any specified body which accepts a Public Service Card as a form of identification for the purposes of a transaction must also offer the option of at least one alternative method of identification for the purposes of that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications Administration (1 Oct 2019)

Simon Coveney: My Department has engaged with the Office of the Attorney General in relation to the Public Service Card (PSC) on a number of occasions, including in the context of the Data Protection Commission’s report on the PSC. As the Deputy will be aware, such legal advice is confidential. I am satisfied that the requirements of my Department in relation to proof of identity have at all times...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Data Protection Commissioner may say the Minister is entitled to do this in relation to the services of her Department but in respect of the public service card database, that is, the single customer view dataset, there has been a huge issue and a requirement around its deletion.

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...background myself, have done. I read a great deal here about ehealth, e-prescribing and a range of other matters. I actually do not know what these terms mean. Where are they in relation to the public service card? Where are they in relation to the ehealth card? Where are they as regards the data? What will be the process? What infrastructure has to be put in place? What pathways...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (19 Dec 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...a person’s identity to a substantial level of assurance. This is a necessary step when providing access to valuable state services including the income supports provided by my Department. A Public Service Card (PSC) can issue when a person's identity is verified to SAFE 2 standard. In addition to acting as a token that their identity has been verified to SAFE2 standard,...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...the Bill. Both of these were amendments made to the Bill on Committee Stage, which I opposed and flagged that it was my intention to revert to them. Section 7(6) provides that the presentation of a public service card or access to a person’s public service identity may not be the exclusive basis by which a public body may verify a person’s identity. Along the same lines,...

Seanad: Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (18 Dec 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...x201c;Amendment of section 263 of Principal Act 27. Section 263 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):"(3) A person shall produce his or her public service card or other appropriate form of identification at the request of a specified body for the purposes of a transaction. No specified body shall make possession of a public...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Mr. John McKeon: It is a personal card so the person keeps it. One can give it to somebody else but the advantage of the public service card is that the person will not be able to use it fraudulently because of the identity checks. It is not like the old social services card that did not have a photograph.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 11: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.”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (25 Sep 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...which disproportionately benefits higher earners, the best investment and recognition of contribution across the board? This is a little outside the budgetary issue, but there are still ministerial concerns about the public service card. We saw in the media last week, however much the media should be trusted, that there were serious concerns about the sharing of data across Departments...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Websites (12 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...are covered by the definition of biometric data only when processed through a specific technical means allowing the unique identification or authentication of a natural person. The collection and printing of a simple JPEG image on the Public Service Card (PSC) does not therefore constitute the collection or processing of special category data. I wish to be clear however that these...

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.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (11 Jul 2018)

Shane Ross: ...a person as the form of identification required when they submit their vehicle for the National Car Test (NCT).  If for any legitimate reason this is not possible, an alternative is provided which allows the presentation of a Public Service Card, which provides a similar level of assurance regarding identity to a driving licence, including residence. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...by a number of regulatory bodies or agencies at various times. It is standard practice that normal business is continued while these audits or investigations are carried out or completed. The Public Service Card is the physical token used by customers of the Department to cash their benefit, assistance or Pension payments which are made through the Post Office network. In addition,...