Results 101-120 of 244 for "public service card"

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: Departmental Staff Data (11 Sep 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...Affairs and Social Protection the staff costs to date in 2017, based on her Department’s request for 200 additional staff over a four year period regarding those only directly involved in the public service card project; the staff costs for staff involved in the internal upgrade of the ICT systems; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37876/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 1849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of helpdesk staff in her Department and the costs associated with calls from customers to request activation of the public service card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37878/17]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...Stage, but the fact that we pushed it and had this conversation here today is healthy, since we can raise the issues and give some sort of idea to the Minister of some of our concerns. There is concern about section 5(2), which deals with the public service card. I agree on the need for checks and balances but it seems that the card is being rolled out for everything. The previous...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector (6 Jul 2017)

...establish who a person is. We can establish that by taking a photograph and matching it against one's records in order that we know who a person is. At the end of that process a person is given a public service card, which one can then use to access services. One can put that card away and never look at it ever again.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (27 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...279* Temporary 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 the roll out of the Public Service Card.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (27 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...statements. Temporary Clerical Officers are appointed to provide cover for long term absences eg. maternity leave, parental leave, the shorter working year scheme, to support the roll out of the public service card and to operate the annual back to school clothing and footwear allowance scheme. Tabular Statements Permanent Clerical Officers appointed to DSP County 2015 County 2016...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Bodies Data (20 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...463 Temporary Clerical Officers currently employed in my Department to cover the Shorter Working Year Scheme, long term absences, and to administer the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Scheme and the Public Service Card. Citizens Information Board Staff Serving by County County Staff Numbers Dublin 44 Wexford 1 Cork 7 Limerick 3 Galway 3 Mayo 1 Sligo 2 Donegal 1...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: I also mean public services. I believe that a public service card will now be required to apply for a driver's licence.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (18 May 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...can be processed much more quickly and in fact, almost two thirds of people who claim online will get a decision instantaneously. If, in their constituency work, members come across people who have made a paper application and are still waiting for an answer, they can still put in an online application. An applicant does need a public service card to do so but that is all. I would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (18 May 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

...has been tasked with trying to accelerate good data protection at departmental level and across all organisations in the State. One must also consider the investment the State has made in the public service card and the MyGovID initiative, which was launched by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Varadkar, a...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Apr 2017)

Lynn Ruane: ...The articles I have read today point out it was down to the new computer system. We should get answers. For the past number of years, we have been updating and installing new computer systems for the public service card. I thought there would be some crossover in terms of being able to administer the child care subsidy through the administration put in place for the public service card....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Engagement on Overall Fiscal Position: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)

...we could provide a separate briefing on such issues as digital identifier and verification to Deputy Ryan. There are a number of provisions in place which we have been building on. There is the public service card and the data behind the public service card. There are now 2.5 million people who have a public service card. Two weeks ago, we launched myGovID, which, in effect, is the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Availability (28 Feb 2017)

Thomas Byrne: 442. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a public service card for a person (details supplied). [10311/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: .... I believe the issue with regard to IT systems across the health care service is chronic. I presume the various projects that have been outlined are being piloted in different hospitals and across various disciplines but a public service card is being produced separately to that by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which is something of which I am a huge supporter. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation in Bus Éireann: Discussion (22 Feb 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

Mr. Tim Duggan: We will have issued the free travel pass public service card variant that we produce to all free travel customers who want it within this calendar year.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (2 Feb 2017)

John Brassil: 174. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a new public service card will issue a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5059/17]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015 (20 Oct 2016) See 3 other results from this debate

...looking for employment and looking to access both activation services and income support, the first thing we will do is capture a history of that individual. We will register such individuals for a public service card, we will capture their educational and work history, that is, the kind of skills and expertise that they may or may not have, and on the basis of that information we will...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Future of Health Care: eHealth Ireland (14 Sep 2016) See 1 other result from this debate

...useful in the past six months as we have started to learn more and more about different jurisdictions as we have built the electronic health record business case. The Deputy also mentioned the public service card. One plan through which the Department of Health is working with the Department of Social Protection is on how the individual health identifier can be on that same card, that...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Jul 2016)

Michael Moynihan: ...outside of Ireland can obtain a public services card given that they require a passport for identification purposes but are unable to obtain a passport because, as of 29 March 2016, they require a public service card in support of a passport application; if he is aware of the difficulties this is causing persons; the steps he is taking to immediately rectify this situation; and if he will...