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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Card (11 Sep 2017) See 1 other result from this answer

Paschal Donohoe: ...Deputy’s question, I can confirm that neither my Department nor any of the bodies under its aegis have plans to make services or payments dependent on the mandatory use and production of the Public Services Card. The Public Services Card offers a standard way of identifying customers that will reduce the administrative burden both on the service providers...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Sep 2019) See 1 other result from this debate

John Brady: In a very quiet way, the public services card was removed yesterday as a requirement by the Passport Office. Clearly, not all Departments and Government offices share the same confidence as the Taoiseach and the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, that the continued use of the public services card beyond the Department of Employment Affairs and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2019)

Leo Varadkar: Like the majority of people in this House, I am a big supporter of the public services card. I think it has worked extremely well. More than 3 million people in this country now have a public services card, including me, and when people were asked what they think about the public services card they have, more than 80% of people were satisfied with it and prefer it to what they had before,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed - Priority Questions: Public Services Card (26 Sep 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Róisín Shortall: The Department's e-strategy describes the widespread adoption of the public services card as being critical to the success of that strategy. The manner in which the public services card has been rolled out has caused a fair deal of concern and there is significant public apprehension and a lack of trust in regard to the use of the card. I want to know what steps the Minister is taking to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cyber Security Policy (17 Sep 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...the moment that this is some sort of Fine Gael, Big Brother-style police state conspiracy. It is not, because Fine Gael has only had control of that Department for approximately three years. The public services card was an all-party effort and debates in the past show that all parties were very much in favour of it. The concept of the public services card was first launched in 1998....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Oct 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...and publish that letter. No. 2427is from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, providing a response to our request for further information regarding the public services card. We requested the following information: a list of all public bodies that are considering using, or have made the decision to use, the public services card to date and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Gerald Nash: ...information from the Mirroron foot of a freedom of information request on the response from the Department to a journalist last November. It stated the initial costs associated with producing the public services card were €18.284 million, ex-VAT, and that a further €1.5 million in costs were related to other aspects of the project. The sum of €18.284 million allowed...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)

Mr. Tim Gaston: We do not get revenue information from the public services card. We simply get a record of people using the public services card on a bus. The NTA's system does not tell us where it was used or any details about the card user, we are simply told that a public services card, identified by the electronic number stored within it, was used on a Go-Ahead, Dublin Bus, or Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: Following a public procurement process, the tender for the supply of the production, personalisation and distribution of the Public Services Card (PSC) and the provision of associated services was awarded to Security Card Concepts in July 2018 for a period of three years. The supplier is based in Bray. This is simply a new supply contract, it is not a new generation card. The Public...

Other Questions: Public Services Card (20 Feb 2018)

Joan Collins: There is a contradiction here. If a person does not provide the necessary SAFE 2 level identification - not the SAFE 1 level - then that person does not have a public services card. Is the SAFE 2 level saying that a person has to have a public services card? Will the Minister clarify if a person could use his or her passport or driver's licence? I shall give an example. The number of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (22 Sep 2020)

Heather Humphreys: ...claims to be. It is also important that we minimise the requirement for people to authenticate their identity each time they need to enter into a transaction with a public body. A key aim of the public services card and the standard authentication framework environment, SAFE, process that underpins it is to deliver on those objectives. The SAFE process is also key to the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (25 Sep 2019)

Regina Doherty: ...the PPSN to replace the previous Revenue and Social Insurance number (RSI) and the Social Service Card (SSC). The clear and stated objective as articulated in Oireachtas at that time was that the Public Services Card was not to be confined to welfare services but to act as an identifier for access to a broad range of public services. Successive Governments have reaffirmed this policy both...

Written Answers — Public Services Card: Public Services Card (15 Nov 2011) See 1 other result from this answer

Joan Burton: 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 (SAFE) programme. The aim is to develop a card that acts as a key for access to public services in general. The phased introduction of the Public Services Card started last month. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (16 Nov 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 379. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if flexibility can be shown over the requirement to have a public services card to renew driver licences given the lengthy waiting times for a public services card appointment; and if not, the alternative avenues available for those who are currently unable to renew their driver licence without their public services card....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2017: Discussion (1 Jun 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Mr. Tim Duggan: Yes, it will be, and it is absolutely intended that that would be the case. It was always the intention that the public services card would be used for public services - hence the name - in the same way that the personal public services number is for public services. There is a distinction between that and how it will be used in the public services. For instance, the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Sep 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...order issued by the Commissioner for Data Protection before we can challenge any findings. No findings of legal standing have yet been made, but that may happen in the coming weeks. The public services card is a good thing. It is a success. The vast majority, more than 80%, of the people surveyed believe the public services card is a good thing. More than 3 million people have one...

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

Regina Doherty: ...access to services provided by my Department but also for an increasing number of public services provided by other State agencies. Once a person is registered to SAFE 2, they can be issued with a Public Services Card (PSC). There was no expenditure or public information campaign dedicated to advertising the Public Services Card in 2017. In 2017, my Department produced an explainer video...

Written Answers — Public Service Cards: Public Service Cards (25 May 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...within the Department to support the management and administration of the cards. Procurement for this development has commenced. The overall time for completion of initial deployment of a Public Services Card is dependent on the rate at which it will be possible to register all of those to whom it will be issued. Features such as photographs and signatures and electronic card...

Written Answers — Public Service Card: Public Service Card (29 Jun 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...within the Department to support the management and administration of the cards. Procurement for this development has commenced. The overall time for completion of initial deployment of a Public Services Card is dependent on the rate at which it will be possible to register all of those to whom it will be issued. Features such as photographs and signatures and electronic card...

Other Questions: Public Services Card Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: The public services card is simply the token that proves that a person, Joan Collins for example, has completed the SAFE 2 level process and that she is Joan Colllins. The card is only a by-product or a token of having gone through that standard. There are 50 public bodies - or their agents - detailed and listed in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, as amended, that can ask a person...