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

Mick Wallace: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out a formal assessment regarding the risks of introducing a public services card; if her Department has carried out a data privacy impact assessment with regard to the public services card; the impact of the public services card to date with regard to reducing rates of social welfare fraud,...

Written Answers — Public Services Card: Public Services Card (23 Nov 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 59 and 228 together. The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, the specifications for a Public Services Card (PSC) under the Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or SAFE, programme. The specification provides for identification features, including a photograph. The aim is to develop a card that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (1 Oct 2019)

Paschal Donohoe: We believe that we are on solid legal foundations in using the public services card as a way to help citizens to access services efficiently. Encouraging greater use of the public services card over time will lead to more convenient and efficient ways in which families and citizens can access public services.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...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." It relates to a concern that has arisen regarding the public services card or, more specifically, the public service identity data set. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection which has considered this...

Order of Business (20 Mar 2018)

Simon Coveney: I need to consider the deadline and the significance of it. The thinking behind a public services card is to make sure we make accessing services easier for people, not more difficult. Once people go to the trouble of getting the public services card, which I know for some may involve travelling, it will allow them access multiple services across the State, including getting passports...

Public Services Card: Statements (25 Sep 2019)

John Brady: I want to ask a question on the overall cost of the card. We know €62 million has been spent on the roll-out of the public services card so far. We also know that in the region of €2 million was ploughed into the project of making the public services card a requirement for getting a driving licence. Can we have an overall figure for the roll-out of the card across all...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2014)

David Cullinane: ...the control of any such scheme administered by An Post may be transferred by An Post to the Minister.",(e) in section 263A, by inserting the following subsection after subsection (6): "(7) Where a public services card issued to a person is presented to An Post for the purposes of obtaining payment of benefit, An Post may withhold payment, confiscate the card and surrender it as soon as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (3 Apr 2019)

Finian McGrath: ...Affairs and Social Protection. However, I understand that that Department does not currently have plans to introduce proof of Disability Allowance card.  The Department has responsibility for the Public Services Card (PSC). In this regard, the PSC is designed to replace other cards within the public sector - such as the free travel pass and the social services card of this Department...

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) See 2 other results from this answer

Tommy Broughan: 1827. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social protection payment recipients that have a public services card in 2016 and in 2017; the number of social protection payment recipients with no public services card in 2016 and in 2017; the number of social protection payments that have been withheld due to the lack of a public services card in 2016 and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll: I am familiar with the public services card more from my previous role in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The public services card is, frankly, the responsibility of another Government Department so I could not really comment on its development. There is a very wide take-up of the public services card, perhaps wider than many people recognise....

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 1 other result from this debate

Seán Fleming: ...matter. While I do not have an issue with the service provided, it is unusual that the Department does not have a direct public office in County Laois. We heard that the ballpark cost for the public services card will be €60 million. Is €20 a valid cost for a public services card? When it commenced, did the Department think it would spend €5, €10 or...

Written Answers — Public Services Card: Public Services Card (2 Nov 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 59, 76, 95 and 96 together. The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other Government Departments, the specifications for a Public Services Card (PSC) under the Standard Authentication Framework Environment, or SAFE, programme. The specification provides for identification features, including a photograph. The aim is to develop a card...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017)

John Curran: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the requirement for the public services card; her views on whether other Departments and agencies should be able to insist on using this card for identification purposes; her further views on whether the public services card is effectively becoming a national identity card; her views on whether, if the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Witness Protection Programme (11 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...for the protection of persons in the witness protection scheme in cases in which they are being placed in the public service identity system that requires them to subscribe to services that require a public services card in view of the fact that the public services card carries all previous names of the person on the card as part of its data set; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (23 Oct 2019)

Willie O'Dea: Is the Minister familiar with the conclusion of the Data Protection Commissioner that in some cases the public services card makes access to a service more difficult, for example, when one must artificially produce the card when identify verification was not required in the past with respect to, say, school transport appeals. Has that practice been discontinued? Would the Minister like to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Card (18 Jan 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The Public Services Card (PSC), and its online counterpart MyGovID, is the Government’s standard personal identity verification scheme, and it is core to delivering valuable public services to the people who need them in a secure and efficient manner.  The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is the lead implementation body for the production of the Public...

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

John Curran: I will comment on the issue of the public services card being mandatory. The Minister indicated several times that people have a choice of using a paper-based system, for which they do not need the card, but that most people are happy to use the card. I acknowledge that. However, there was a shift in February 2018 when the Road Safety Authority, RSA, specifically stated that the public...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (7 Jul 2020)

Heather Humphreys: A person can find their Personal Public Services Number (PPSN), or that of their child, on documents such as a Public Services Card, a Medical Card or GP Visit Card, a European Health Insurance Card, or a Drugs Payment Scheme Card. Any parent who wishes to confirm the PPSN of their child can do so by calling my Department at Lo Call 1890 927 999. They will be asked a series of questions to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (13 Dec 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...for the purposes of accepting applications for PPSNs from persons applying for International Protection. Persons applying for a PPSN are also required to verify their identity by applying for a Public Services Card. When processing applications for a Public Services Card, my Department carries out checks to ensure that the person has not previously applied for a Public Services Card under...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (17 Nov 2020)

Heather Humphreys: The SAFE registration process, which my Department uses to authenticate a person's identity, is a face to face process which results in the issuing of a Public Services Card.  Customers entitled to free travel receive a free travel variant of their Public Services Card to use when availing of free travel.   At the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, my Department...