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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

Regina Doherty: ...providing access to the billions of euro, of which the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is in charge and which it is giving to people through all of its schemes. The public services card is only issued after someone goes through the SAFE 2 registration process. In addition to acting as a token that an individual's identity has been verified to SAFE 2 standard,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Applications (11 Sep 2017)

Thomas Pringle: 1490. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish citizens residing abroad must acquire the new public services card to renew a driving licence; if so, the location in which they can apply for a public services card while residing in another country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37868/17]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (20 Sep 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Burton: The introduction of the Public Services Card (PSC) will assist in the identification of customers to providers of public services. A more secure registration process, leading to issue of a PSC incorporating the customer's photograph and signature, will give significant assurance as to the identity of the cardholder. This means that the issuer of a PSC will get three main benefits: - It will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (16 Jul 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding the SAFE scheme and public services card and the invitation of tenders (details supplied); if she plans to develop use of the card throughout the public sector by multiple agencies; the names of the agencies and public sector bodies that she will give utilisation of the card to; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (20 Feb 2018)

Mick Wallace: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the person or body that is the data controller for the public services card and attendant database; the way in which this information affects her Department in relation to the public services card and single customer view; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8445/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (9 Sep 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 724. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to long waiting periods experienced by persons needing to obtain a public services card; and the steps her Department is taking to ensure the card can be obtained as soon as possible for the purpose of accessing important public services. [42887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (8 Apr 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Burton: ...for the purposes of access to public services. This programme of work, which is known as the Standard Authentication Framework Environment or SAFE for short, also provided for the introduction of a Public Services Card (PSC) to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently and with a minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving their privacy...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (24 May 2016) See 1 other result from this answer

Leo Varadkar: The Deputy is referring to the Public Services Card which issues to a person following a robust face-to-face identity registration process called SAFE registration. This process involves the capture of an individual’s photograph and signature, the verification of identity data already held by the Department through documentary and database checks, and facial image matching....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (8 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 661. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the Intreo offices that are currently open for public services card appointments in Dublin; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties experienced by applicants due to a reported increase in demand for the public services card; and the steps that she will take to address the delays. [54791/22]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2017)

Mick Barry: I want to address the issue of the public services card. Section 5 of the Bill allows for the public services card to have dates of birth on it at the request of the cardholder. The card can then be used as ID with non-State bodies, banks, etc. Currently, the card does not have a date of birth and cannot be used as ID with non-State bodies. We oppose the use of the public services card as...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (7 Dec 2010) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: I propose to take Questions Nos. 233 to 235, inclusive, 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...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

...can it be if someone has changed address since they completed SAFE 2 registration? In fact, how a person is supposed to change their address is not clear from anything published on SAFE 2 and the public services card, PSC. The other issue around foreseeability for individuals is that if it is not clear to an individual that procurement of a public services card is to be mandatory to...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: Yes. Amendments Nos. 6, 7 and 13 provide that public bodies cannot ask for a public services card or access a public service identity as the exclusive basis by which a person may verify his or her identity in order to conduct a transaction or access a service. It is crucial to the construction of the legislation that the public service identity includes some of the following: PPS number;...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (15 Jun 2011)

Joan Burton: The Department has developed, in conjunction with a number of other 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 acts as a key for access to public services in general, identifying...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Mar 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...of public services. More particularly, if people are to have confidence in using public services online, they need to have an verified and authenticated online identity and MyGovID, building on the Public Services Card, gives people that confidence and the means to access services online.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We really hope that Fianna Fáil Deputies will not do a U-turn on this and that they do not hide behind this wonderful contraption called confidence and supply. The public services card project is a ticking time bomb for the Government as far as we are concerned. If by chance Fianna Fáil Deputies were to do a U-turn on it, it might not look great on their record when the trouble...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Mar 2019)

Finian McGrath: The purpose of the Public Services Card (PSC) is to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently while, at the same time, preserving their privacy to the maximum extent possible. 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 - and to make it easier for providers of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (17 Nov 2021)

Heather Humphreys: The list of public bodies that are authorised to use a person's Personal Public Service Number (PPSN) and/or accept a Public Services Card (PSC) as proof of identity when transacting with an individual, is set out in social welfare legislation. An Garda Síochána is included on that list but only in respect of its own members. When the legislation governing the PSC was debated in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (16 May 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...legislation, a person must authenticate their identity as one of the conditions of their right to any social welfare payment. Once a person has authenticated their identity and been issued with a Public Services Card (PSC), they can, if they wish, use that PSC to collect their payment at a Post Office of their choice. In addition, a person who is entitled to Free Travel can use their PSC...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (23 Sep 2014) See 2 other results from this answer

Joan Burton: The Public Services Card (PSC) has been introduced to enable individuals gain access to public services more efficiently and with a minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving their privacy to the maximum extent possible. The PSC is designed to replace other cards within the public sector such as the Free Travel Pass and the Social Services Card (SSC) of this...