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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...of the Department. It must be almost proficient in crisis management because we have had several crises over the past few years. Can Mr. McKeon tell us how much it has cost to date to develop the public services card?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Mr. John McKeon: I do not have the up-to-date figures but I can get them for the Deputy. We published a report in 2021 on value for money and the returns of the public services card. I will send that on to the Deputy. At the time, the total cost of the investment was about €98 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I will keep this short and ask Mr. McKeon to keep his replies short too. On the public services card, is it the case that the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, visited D'Olier Street in March of this year and looked at the biometric nature of the data and the Department then had to follow up with responses? I understand that was done a few months ago, in July or August. The Department...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Murphy: Neither do I. If the findings are adverse in relation to biometrics, is there a plan B with regard to the information contained on the public services card?