Results 121-140 of 244 for "public service card"

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...that the totality of Intreo services will be offered from two locations in the town. These services include income support, employment support, social welfare inspectorate, community welfare and a public service card facility. Expenditure on this Intreo project amounts to €0.9m. The OPW has leased this property from the HSE with effect from the 1st of January 2015.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (Revised) (23 Jun 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: ...under ferocious pressure and I have also contributed to some of that. It is a very stressful time but if we can provide an online service that would be something. My final point relates to the public service card and the requirement for new or renewal applications to have the public service card. Is the Department liaising with other Departments in that regard because we are finding...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Passport Services (26 May 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: .... The Department needs to focus on bringing the average turnaround time back to 15 days. Applications for brand new passports or to replace lost or stolen ones require the production of the new public service card. Many people have not been issued with a public services card. They then have to make an appointment, further elongating the process. This is a major issue. We...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 May 2016)

Charles Flanagan: .... More information about naturalisation is available on . Identity In terms of identity, the proper Garda witnessing of the person’s application form and photographs along with the submission of her Public Service card will be sufficient to meet the Act’s identity requirements. More information about passport entitlement is available on the Passport Service’s...

Adjournment Debate: Passport Applications (19 May 2016)

Declan Breathnach: ...of the changes, unless they happen to consult the Passport Office website, and their bona fideapplications are being returned with insufficient time to secure the valid passport due to the need for the public service card. Is there a new passport application form with the new rules on it? Will the Minister consider relaxing the two rules for a specified period in order to enable the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Application Refusals (19 May 2016)

Charles Flanagan: ...issue. In order to finalise this application, the Passport Service needs to receive the following: a new witnessed application form and photographs; original birth certificate or Cameroon passport (Alternatively, a Public Service card when she reaches eighteen years of age.); and witnessed guardian consent (until she reaches her eighteenth birthday on 4 September, 2016). As regards the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit (19 Jan 2016)

Joan Burton: .... MyWelfare.ie is designed to enable clients to access personalised Department of Social Protection services by registering for, and creating a personal account. The portal has been operational since July 2015 and currently allows customers to book PPSN and Public Service Card appointments. For jobseeker’s benefit, the on-line application form on MyWelfare.ie has been developed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (19 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...data quality, accuracy and completeness and it is intended to exploit and reuse the significant investment in data collection and verification being made by the Minister for Social Protection in the Public Service Card initiative. The Data Protection Commissioner was consulted while the Health Identifiers Act was being drafted and will be consulted at appropriate stages of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (12 Nov 2015)

Joan Burton: Some 50 persons have had their child benefit payments suspended during 2014 or 2015 for repeated failures to keep appointments to register for the public service card under the SAFE registration programme. Out of the total that were suspended, ten claims remain suspended from 2014 and four from dates in 2015. No claims were suspended during 2012 or 2013 for this purpose.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Places (20 Oct 2015)

Joan Burton: The person concerned has made no application or contacted the local office in relation to a Jobseekers claim. She has a public service card which is sufficient for identity purposes and therefore does not require production of her passport. The person concerned may contact her local office to make an appointment to assess eligibility to a jobseeker's claim.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (29 Sep 2015)

Joan Burton: ...to develop additional on-line services for customers and a new myWelfare.ie application has recently become available. Already, customers can apply via myWelfare.ie for an appointment for a PPSN or a Public Service Card and over time a further range of on-line services will become available.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (16 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: ...and access management service and integration with Departmental IT systems. These new online services will be made available in phased releases beginning in 2015 and will initially include an online appointment service for public service card registration, online jobseeker application and close my claim service, and a facility to make appointments with case officers and deciding officers....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (7 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: ...regarding employment supports and training and education opportunities. The Education & Training Boards are also available to attend and speak with staff. Finally it is also proposed that the Public Service Card facility will be made available to Liberty Insurance staff members onsite at a mobile unit in Cavan and at Blanchardstown Intreo Centre via walk in or appointment.

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 6 other results from this debate

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue: Absolutely. There is a fixed cost associated with the public service card. We are in a contract, the value of which is €24 million. That is based on a presumption that we will issue 3 million cards by the end of 2016. To date, we have 1.4 million cards issued. Obviously, this has been a progression in terms of ramping up our capacity to issue public service...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (13 May 2015)

Joan Burton: ...and physical works would take approximately one year to complete. Unfortunately, this timeframe is not commensurate with the Department's business requirements and the need to establish a Public Service Card Centre in the County, which is badly needed and is now an urgent requirement. Consequently, neither my officials, nor the OPW, consider that the properties on offer in Ballybay could...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (15 Apr 2015)

Catherine Noone: ...person presenting for such a payment must provide evidence that he or she has been nominated to receive the payment on behalf of that other person, while also being subject to the requirement to provide the public service card and other relevant documentation. The Bill is well thought out legislation that will modernise our social welfare system. The long overdue transformation of the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Properties (26 Mar 2015)

Joan Burton: ...area; file storage area; communications room; staff canteen; staff toilets; general store room and rest room would also be required. My Department also has an urgent requirement to establish a Public Service Card (PSC) public office in Monaghan; the only county which does not yet have such an office. This would require a reception counter, two to four PSC customer points, an...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Kevin Humphreys: The banks should accept the public service card as a means of identification. For many reasons, mostly relating to money laundering and other criminal activities, the banks have been quite rigid in terms of what they will accept as suitable identification. I have no difficulty pursuing this issue with them on the part of the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (24 Mar 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Seán Conlan: 151. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the directions given to locate offices in Ballybay, County Monaghan for the administrative arrangements for the public service card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11267/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Social Welfare Offices (4 Mar 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Conlan: ...being given to these alternative proposals. There is adequate space in Ballybay to retain the jobs in the town. At the last meeting it was made clear that if there were new jobs to come in terms of a public service card, it could be done either in Ballybay or elsewhere. There is no need for the jobs currently located in Ballybay to be moved elsewhere. It is welcome that we have a...