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- Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)
Joan Burton: 9. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the further rollout of the public services card; his further plans to protect the privacy of persons using the card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10869/18]
- Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)
Joan Burton: I want to ask the Minister, now that his Department is running the public services card project under the strategic communications strategy, how he proposes to reassure ordinary people across the country who use the public services card efficiently that their data are safe and protected and will not be handed on to other bodies.
- Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: The public services card, and its online counterpart MyGovID, is the Government’s standard personal identity verification scheme, and it is core to delivering public services to people in a secure and efficient manner. My Department works closely with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection which is the lead implementation body for the production of the PSC,...
- Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)
Joan Burton: I was the Minister responsible for introducing the public services card. Ireland spends about €20 billion a year on social welfare payments to people. The public services card has enabled a much better quality of service, with greater speed and effectiveness. This applies particularly to the free travel enjoyed by pensioners and the disabled. People can now do their business with a...
- Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)
Joan Burton: In this strategic communications, spin-driven Government the Minister would be well advised to rethink what is happening reputationally to the public services card. It is extremely important to people who are using it, particularly our pensioners for their travelling needs, and others who are using it for a range of services. It is particularly important in terms of the €20 billion...
- Other Questions: Data Protection (22 Mar 2018)
Paschal Donohoe: ...when there are such legitimate concerns about how we protect our digital identity and make sure information that people share is securely protected I would have thought that the rationale for the public services card has actually grown rather than been diminished.