John Kelly (Labour)

I support the Minister on this initiative. For far too long, there has been flagrant abuse of the ordinary PPS card where anyone can present with another person's card. In my experience in this field I have seen it happen for far too long. I recently heard of the case of a family returning from England who had been in the UK for 15 years and other individuals had been claiming social welfare on their cards for all that time. I hope this new system will deal with this problem but I would be concerned that anyone using a double identity under the current system could still be able to use a double identity with the facial recognition card as all they have to do is present it twice in two different areas. I hope the system will be able to detect such fraudulent activity. The system should also use biometric fingerprinting in the future.