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Seanad: Business of Seanad (20 Jul 2017)

Denis O'Donovan: .... I have also received notice from Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile of the following matter:The need for the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the impact the roll-out of the public services card may have on Irish citizens who are resident in the Six Counties and who wish to apply for and obtain an Irish passport, as is their right under the terms of the Good...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (19 Jul 2017)

Denis O'Donovan: .... I have also received notice from Senator Niall Ó Donnghaile of the following matter:The need for the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform to outline the impact the roll-out of the public services card may have on Irish citizens who are resident in the Six Counties and wish to apply for and obtain an Irish passport, as is their right under the terms of Good Friday...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Jul 2017) See 5 other results from this debate

John Curran: ...punishment. The standard rate for reclaiming an overpayment is 15% and this proposed up to 25% which seemed excessively punitive. Will the Minister confirm that, while it is not in the Bill as published, she has no intention of reintroducing that provision? I will leave it at that. The one concern that came up about the public services card was that it would become mandatory the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jul 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...I will ask the secretariat to recirculate it. If we have not received something referred to, it will be circulated. No. 667C is correspondence, dated 7 June 2017, from an individual on the public services card. The committee is being copied on this correspondence, which was sent to the Taoiseach. It is not directed to us, we were just sent a copy. No. 668C, correspondence dated 6...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 1212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a photo ID services card has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34447/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (11 Jul 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...that this work identified some €41 million in fraud overpayments in 2016. Work will also continue on a number of measures to prevent fraud from entering the social welfare system. The continued roll-out of the Public Services Card has considerably reduced the potential for identity fraud. The use of data analytics software and techniques, improved data-matching capacity and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector (6 Jul 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: Page 10 of the Secretary General's opening statement reads: "The Government's Digital Services Gateway together with the Public Services Card and MyGovID, our online identity service, are key to Ireland becoming an exemplar in digital transactions." I disagree with that language because what I have read is certainly not an exemplar. I want to get this matter straight. Is the Department...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mr. Simon McGarr: On the specific question in respect of the public services card, it does have a great deal of the appearance of a national ID card scheme in its scope, and that scope is increasing regularly to the point that one is no longer able to apply for a driving licence for the first time without having a public services card. People who are applying for their first passport must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...spending large capital amounts on such projects. I had to come in and sort out the Leap card implementation. Now there is an issue with electronic health records. I am a big supporter of the public services card and making that a G2C or a C2G card. Public services cards, travel cards and health records should, with layers of security, eventually become one. Security can allow for...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Data (27 Jun 2017)

Regina Doherty: ...It is possible, however, to collect some non-identifying data on overall usage where the integrated ticketing system (ITS) is enabled by participating transport operators and customers are using the new Public Services Card Free Travel (PSC-FT) variant rather than the old form of paper free travel pass. The rollout of the ITS by the National Transport Authority to travel operators is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (22 Jun 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Bríd Smith: ...for Social Protection the steps she will take to facilitate persons with disabilities that have been told that their existing free travel cards must be replaced by November 2017 with the new public services card; the further steps that are in place for persons in rural or isolated areas with mobility or sight issues for whom travelling to their nearest welfare office means confronting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

.... Denis Kelleher: There are plenty of example of European states providing effective identification services. I realise that this is quite controversial in the context of the current debate on the public services card in Ireland. The difficulty here comes down to the question as to who one wants to process one's personal data or be responsible for one's identification. If the State is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 2013. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on whether the proposal to expand the range of public services for which a public services card will be required coupled with the proposal for the card to carry a person's date of birth constitutes the introduction of a national identity card by stealth; the range of legal and privacy issues such an introduction by stealth would give...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: ...and also the rapidly developing case law from the EU Court of Justice. We have had the implications of the Barrett judgment in regard to information in the context of the recent actions on the public services card and the individual health identifier. In that scenario, we have one arm of Government, if one likes, engaged in a course of action of sharing data which seems to be blatantly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017) See 10 other results from this debate

...to the following: the clarification of the principle that payments to a guardian should not be conflated with payments to the orphan in guardianship; enabling citizens to voluntarily present their public services card as a means of establishing identity with service providers such as credit unions, banks and utility providers and, if they wish, to include their date of birth on the public...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (1 Jun 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: 116. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of public services cards that have been issued to date; the number awaiting to be issued; if he will ensure that all public services cards will be issued in a timely manner in order that there will be no delay for those applying for a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25614/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (1 Jun 2017)

Bernard Durkan: 117. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a new social services card will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) who is the holder of stamp 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26361/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test Regulations (31 May 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Tommy Broughan: ...and Sport if young persons aged 16 and 17 years of age will continue to be able to undertake a driver theory test in view of the new policy applying from June 2017 that all applicants must hold a public services card to sit a driver theory test; if he has received an assurance from the Department of Social Protection that young persons aged 16 and 17 years of age will be able to apply for...