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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (9 Nov 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Dara Calleary: There has been quite considerable controversy around the public services card. The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating issues around it under section 10 of the Data Protection Act. Can the Minister outline how much money is being used to promote the use of the public services card and whether the expenditure of that money is being suspended pending the outcome of the data...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (3 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of face biometric data records collected through the administration of the public services card that are held by her Department; and the security protocols and policies in place to prevent a leak or breach of data records, including biometric data records collected by her Department through the public services...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (26 Mar 2013) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Burton: The public services card which will replace the existing free travel pass will be introduced by the end of this year. This card will incorporate an integrated ticketing chip for services which have been enabled with smart card reading devices. The introduction of this card will provide my Department with more accurate information on transport services where integrated ticketing is supported,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Card (22 Mar 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: The recent concerns raised in relation to the Public Services Card have been comprehensively addressed through the provision of communications and guidance to clarify exactly what data the card contains, what it is used for, and its legal basis.  The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, assisted by my Department, published a "Comprehensive Guide To SAFE Registration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (6 Sep 2019) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Murphy: ...to Parliamentary Question No. 782 of 9 July 2019, the work undertaken by the data specialist her Department engaged at a cost of €97,150 in 2019; if they were engaged on matters in respect of the public services card and or reports examining the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36079/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Sep 2017) See 2 other results from this answer

Mick Wallace: 63. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a cost benefit analysis was carried out by her Department regarding the public services card; if so, the date on which this will be published; the amount her Department has saved by preventing social welfare fraud through the roll-out of the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39596/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Services Card (12 Jun 2018)

Mick Wallace: 1069. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the change to the mandatory requirement for a public services card for applying for a driver licence and provisional licence; the cost of the project to make the public services card mandatory for applications; when similar changes for the driver theory test will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (10 Feb 2021)

Heather Humphreys: ...existing Acts of the Oireachtas, into one replacement Act of the Oireachtas. The Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, as amended, already contains the provisions which are the legal basis for the Public Services Card. Accordingly if it were thought necessary to modify or supplement existing law relating to the Public Services Card this would need to be undertaken by way of new or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Services Card (7 Nov 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...A working group led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has also been attended by officials from my Department.  My Department's involvement in these discussions centred around the Public Services Card being used as a replacement for the Garda Age Card (subject to the relevant legislative change). Discussions around the most appropriate legislative vehicle to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (13 Jul 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Regina Doherty: A Public Services Card is issued to an individual following a robust registration process to establish and verify the person’s identity. Part of the required evidence of identity for a non-EEA national to get a Public Services Card is a current valid passport. The person concerned has been asked to attend with her passport, but has not yet provided it. I hope this clarifies the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (13 Feb 2018)

Thomas Pringle: 621. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review regarding the use of the public services card as part of section 5 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017 will be carried out in view of the fact that while the card is not mandatory, the list of services requiring the card is increasing; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Kieran O'Donnell: I will return to Ms McCabe. Not too long ago, in 2019, the Data Protection Commission had issues around the public services card. It found that people accessing public services in Ireland should not be required to have a public services card. It was across a range of areas. That is why I am putting the question. My second question is more for Mr. Lowry. Ms McCabe is co-ordinating this...

Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Offices (26 May 2015) See 1 other result from this debate

Joan Burton: ...Ballybay, County Monaghan were redeployed from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to the Department of Social Protection in July 2012. The staff are engaged in the processing of the public services card, PSC, which is intended to enable individuals to gain access to public services more efficiently and with the minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Public Services Card (17 Sep 2019)

Seán Crowe: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has received a briefing regarding findings of the Data Protection Commission relating to the use of the public services card in view of the fact that the Commission found there was no legal basis for Departments, except for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, to insist persons must obtain a card to access a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Authentication (17 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: 1432. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an adoption certificate is still required for all public services card applications in view of recent media reports of a person who was awarded a public services card without an adoption certificate; if short form birth certificates are now acceptable for all applications; the impact of this on her Department's SAFE 2...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2013) See 6 other results from this debate

Paschal Mooney: I move amendment No. 8: In page 17, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(6) Recipients of any Public Services Card shall not be subject to a charge for the issue of such card.".".This amendment relates to the new identification requirements. My understanding is that in extending these requirements to all social welfare payments, the cost of rolling out the public services card...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...7 November, we will discuss the relevant chapters of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I am sure we will also speak about the public services card, on which I want to comment now. We will start to climb up to the HSE and the children's hospital as soon as possible after that because there is a chapter on it in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (3 Feb 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Joan Burton: The purpose of the 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 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...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Identity Card (8 Jul 2015)

Joan Burton: ...for the purposes of access to public services. This programme of work, which is known as 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 to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Jack Chambers: If the Minister of State looks at the actual wording of amendment No. 4, he will see it reads, "A specified body may not make presentation of a public services card or access to a person’s public service identity the exclusive basis by which a person may verify their identity". That language gives flexibility to allow the public services card to be used where provision of an...