David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 7, to delete lines 1 to 23 and substitute the following:

" "(2B) Information held by the Minister for the purposes of this Act or the control of schemes administered by or on behalf of the Minister or the
Department of Social Protection may be transferred by the Minister to An Post, and information held by An Post which is required for those
purposes or the control of any such scheme administered by An Post may be transferred by An Post to the Minister.",

(e) in section 263A, by inserting the following subsection after subsection (6):

"(7) Where a public services card issued to a person is presented to An Post for the purposes of obtaining payment of benefit, An Post may
withhold payment, confiscate the card and surrender it as soon as practicable to the Minister if—

(a) An Post becomes aware of a fact or circumstance, whether occurring before or after the issue of the public services card, that would have required or permitted the Minister to refuse to issue the public services card under section 263 to the person had the Minister been aware of the fact or the circumstance before the public services card was issued, or
(b) An Post is notified or becomes aware that the public services card is, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, in the possession
or control of a person other than the person to whom it is allocated and issued under section 263.",".