Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It makes it very clear that it ties the hands of the State in terms of trying to identify a person because it makes it very clear that we cannot use on an exclusive basis the public services card or access to a person's public services identity.

In respect of my accepting the definition of a public services identity, which is name, address, PPS number, date and a whole pile of things like a mother's maiden name, nobody has provided me with a mechanism as to how I can provide public services tomorrow if this Bill was enacted and nobody has come up with a suggestion if that was to be simply walked over. It is on that basis that I am looking for support.