Results 81-100 of 244 for "public service card"

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: General Data Protection Regulation (11 Jul 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...such personal data is 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 photographs are, in addition to...

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 — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 May 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...made a claim for jobseekers allowance at their Intreo Centre on 1 May 2018 and supplied further requested documents on 4 May 2018 and 5 May 2018. The person concerned was asked to apply for a public service card but to date the person concerned has not returned to the Intreo Centre to follow up on this matter. Once this issue has been resolved an application for jobseeker allowance can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (17 Apr 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...temporary contracts for TCOs for the PSC that commenced in 2012 and 2013 are currently underway. There are currently 275 TCOs employed in my Department as follows: Contract commencement year Number of TCOs Public Service Card TCOs Staff Members absence/project TCOs 2012 15 15 Nil 2013 9 9 Nil 2014 24 24 Nil 2015 18 15 3 2016 30 25 5 2017 106 50 56 2018 73 12 61

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...taking on boards those concerns. I think they will give greater clarity, in particular in one of the significant investigations taking place at present, which is the investigation in respect of the public service card and the single customer view database, in which the Data Protection Commissioner is currently engaged. It is important that this would be able to proceed in a timely way....

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I seek clarification on the section 10 investigations under way at present. As we know, a section 10 investigation is under way by the data commissioner in respect of the public service card and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Will the Minister clarify that the investigation under way, or any other investigation that may be under way before the Bill comes into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...of full information and consent, which seems to be very crucial, and the extent and clarity of the information around the intended use of their information for those who have been issued with a public service card or have been told that they need one. It is very clear that we are not talking about a moment of identification rather a person's information being given into a single customer...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...by the substitution of following subsection for subsection (7):“(7) Where a person fails to comply with subsection (4) or (6), payment of benefit may be withheld until such time as the identity of the person is authenticated. Possession or production of a public service card shall not be a mandatory requirement for the payment of a benefit.”.”. I welcome the Minister...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2017: Second Stage (7 Dec 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...point relates to a key issue and I will table extensive amendments on it. There has been a kind of plough-forward attitude within the Department but I urge the Minister to really review this seriously. The public service card is a serious concern. The way that it is being rolled out has constantly raised concerns, including the those of the Data Protection Commissioner. Until the Data...

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

Regina Doherty: ...of communications issued to the person. He received a number of written apologies and a Department official met with the person and again apologised. In addition, the person was registered for a Public Service Card, thus providing identity verification up to Safe Level 2, which reduces the potential for fraudulent use.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Mr. Liam Herrick: We co-operate with Digital Rights Ireland on a broad range of work in this area, including issues like the public service card. We are coming from the same perspective, which is that Ireland needs to comply with its human rights obligations under EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights with regard to respect for the right to privacy. Our mandates are very...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Will the Leader convey our concern that people who often live from payment to payment, week to week, have been told they cannot access their pensions without a public service card, despite an answer from the Minister this week in which she assured us that An Post did not require the public service card of people accessing pensions and other payments? The Data Protection Commissioner is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Services Card (7 Nov 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...size of a credit card.  Officials of INIS have held discussions with officials of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection concerning the potential to combine the registration certificate with the Public Service Card for those who require both cards.  However, there are significant technical issues which will need to be overcome if the cards are to be combined...

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

Catherine Murphy: 1218. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the country and location that the mobile phone code verification numbers are sent from in the context of the public service card application process stage whereby a person is asked to verify his or her mobile phone number and receive a MyGov verification code; if the host +1 425 prefix code and accompanying number is...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: ...Online Service, and this is the crux of the issue with the card. I inserted by personal public service, PPS, number and lo and behold, I am not registered on the system as Pat. I cannot get a public service card because my name on birth certificate is Anthony James, the name Patrick is not included on it. Revenue telephoned me twice on a Friday. I thought that was very unusual, wanting...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Seán Fleming: ...of the State's negligence. They are told they have money, thus affecting their payment. There is a lack of joined-up thinking. I ask the Government to stop the practice of the State giving with one hand and taking with the other. The issue of the public service card has arisen extensively in regard to this legislation. The issues raised by the Data Protection Commissioner have to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection Remit and Legislative Agenda: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (28 Sep 2017)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...different payments may have very different costs and we need to address that. I wish to signal two issues of concern to which I believe the committee will return. There are many questions on the public service card. I will not now go into all the concerns over identity cards, the data breaches which have been covered, the question of biometrics or even some of the concerns over costs...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017)

Róisín Shortall: ...were told they needed to have one of the cards to apply, for example, for a driver theory test. The vast majority of the public did not realise that was the case and that in the coming months the public service card was to be required in order to renew a passport, where their identity has already been safely established through holding an initial passport. For the eGovernment strategy...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

Willie O'Dea: I am aware that there are 2.7 million public services cards in circulation but as the Minister is aware, concerns have been expressed recently about plans to extend the scope of the public service card and about how confidentiality of the information contained on the card can be maintained.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017)

Katherine Zappone: I can inform the Deputy that the only scheme where consideration is being given to the use of the Public Service Card is in the Affordable Childcare Scheme (ACS). The ACS was announced as part of budget 2017 as a new national scheme of financial support for parents towards the cost of their childcare. It will replace the existing targeted childcare subsidisation schemes, which are: 1....