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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Mr. Lowry. Will this new model align with MyGovID and the Revenue myAccount system or should people expect significant changes or any changes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

.... Barry Lowry: I thank the Deputy for his questions. He is absolutely right. Regarding how we can progress a technical solution, our eID infrastructure, which we propose that we use, that is the MyGovID infrastructure, is entirely owned, end-to-end, by the State. It is unique in Europe and globally because there was no private sector involvement in its design and ownership. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Mr. Barry Lowry: I would hope that they will align. The Government is open to continuously evolving how we do things, even replacing MyGovID if something more popular or more secure comes along. In terms of public uptake, it is very popular; they like it they way it is. I suspect that we would, probably, align with that model. Unlike the rest of EU States, Ireland does not have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

...driving licence available in the digital postbox you can get it transferred there. That digital postbox is entirely personal, it is safe because it is in the cloud and it would be accessed using a MyGovID account. A person could choose to download a credential from a personal digital postbox to his or her phone for a specific purpose. In terms of what we might also do - we have received...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

...insurance company cannot keep the same levels of detail and so on. We need to protect that. On the constitutional issue around the citizen's identity card, the one thing that underpins the MyGovID at the moment is that it is not mandatory. It is a choice by people who want to receive their public services online. Obviously, where that happens the State has an obligation to protect all...