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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)

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.

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)

Mr. John McKeon: It is the public service card and the SAFE process. Many of these would have predated the introduction of the SAFE process. The quality of the SAFE process is that we have the photograph and we can check with our facial image matching software if the person has presented previously. The deterrent effect-----