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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Driver Licensing Service (20 Mar 2018)

Declan Breathnach: 832. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the requirement for a person to produce a public services card to access services offered by the National Driver Licensing Service; the specific legal basis that the NDLS is using to make the card compulsory to access services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12004/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (16 Apr 2024)

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 (PSC). I can confirm that the individual referred to by the Deputy successfully completed their SAFE registration interview on 2 April 2024. A Public Services Card (PSC) has been ordered and the person concerned will...

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

...of payment X today will not be the 300,000 who were in receipt of it two months ago or two weeks ago. Approximately 75% of job seekers and about 70% of one-parent family payment recipients have a public services card. As I have indicated already, about half of people entitled to the free travel scheme have a public services card at this stage. Our initial target has always been to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff Data (17 Apr 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...leave and also to provide cover for some staff availing of the shorter working year scheme. They are also recruited to alleviate work pressure in certain areas, and to assist in the roll-out of the Public Services Card project. Temporary contracts are offered for a fixed term or a fixed purpose. In the case of a fixed purpose contract the term can vary according to the purpose of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (27 Mar 2018)

Mick Wallace: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the exact date invitations to register for a public services card were first sent by her Department to persons who have been registered to SAFE 2 standard by the National Driver Licence Service; if the information used to identify persons who do not have a public services card but are SAFE authenticated and invite these...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Data Protection Package: Discussion with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (9 Oct 2013)

...protections are in place and what degree of control there is. This is an issue that will come before the Houses by way of proposals for a new health identification card. We already have it in the public services card. It is an area in which we are actively following the issue with a view to ensuring people's rights are respected, that they have the maximum control over what is included...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Patrick O'Donovan: I will address the last aspect first. Six Governments have been in office since the concept of the public services card came to fruition and almost 3 million cards have been issued to date. As a Government, we are conscious that we want to ensure there will be a single point of entry for those accessing services. We collect the information once, maximise the opportunities to avail of it...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: insertheading (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal basis for withholding social welfare payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to such payments fails to register for a public services card; her views on whether the overall government policy in relation the public services card and SAFE level two registration limits the statutory discretion of power of her...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (15 Apr 2014) See 2 other results from this answer

Joan Burton: ...identity 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 individual’s to gain access to public services more efficiently and with a minimum of duplication of effort, while at the same time preserving...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Payments (27 Jun 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...are paid weekly in arrears in a post office by Electronic Information Transfer (EIT) where it must be collected in person. Payment is collected in cash, once the customer has provided their Public Services Card or Social Services Card. If using a Social Services Card, a customer will also require photographic ID. The only exceptions are: - where a person is employed casually - a person...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (14 Oct 2020)

Niall Collins: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver needs to have a public services card to renew an expired full driver licence; if he can recommend the way in which a person who does not have a public services card can get an appointment with the National Driver Licence Service, NDLS, and have a renewal application finalised; if the case of a person (details supplied) will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (28 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The purpose of the Public Services Card (PSC) is 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...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017) See 4 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: 43. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the public services card; the circumstances in which the card will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40462/17]

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Committee Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...or a foreign driving licence, only a personal public service, PPS, number suffices as a suitable form of identification when applying for a vehicle licence. While I appreciate that a PPS number is different from a public services card, there was overreach in the requirement for a public services card to access services. Given the process for accessing passports, a passport should be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (28 Nov 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Regina Doherty: ...their social welfare payments. Social welfare claimants must present one of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection payment cards when collecting payments. These cards are; the Public Services Card, the Social Services Card and the Temporary Payment Card. The Public Services Card, or PSC, is an identity token, issued by the Department, following a face to face...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (30 May 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

David Cullinane: 321. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures his Department has put in place to enable persons that wish to apply for a passport but that do not have a public services card and are not resident in the State, such as residents of Northern Ireland, the United States of America, Canada and Australia, once the requirement to have a public services card to apply for a...

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

Mick Wallace: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 19 February 2019, the survey provider that carried out the recent customer survey on the public services card to which she refers; when the survey was carried out; the survey method used; the sample size; the response rate; if only public services card holders were surveyed; the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...of this Act, consult with the Joint Committee for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with the intention of attending a meeting of that committee and providing a briefing in relation to the Public Services Card and any actions his or her department is undertaking in response to the Data Protection Commission’s investigation report into the Public Services Card.”.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2018) See 1 other result from this answer

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the services for which a public services card is required; the categories and details of data contained on the card; the Departments and or agencies with which such information may be shared; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38867/18]

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: -----understood that there were different years involved. We are talking about the public services card. A number of weeks ago, I mentioned the fact that I did not have a public services card. Ms McCrum nicely wrote to me and offered the services of the Department if I wanted to get one. I wrote back to explain that a couple of weeks ago, I think, I arranged by appointment to go into...