John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or bodies and agencies under the remit of his Department plan to make services or payments dependent on the mandatory use and production of the public services card; if so, the services and payments which will now be dependent on the mandatory use of the public services card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38146/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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In line with the 2013 Government Decision, S180/20/10/1789, the Public Services Card (PSC) infrastructure is the Government’s standard identity verification scheme, which is to be used for access to all public services, where appropriate. As such, the widespread adoption of the PSC infrastructure, including its online counterpart MyGovID, to underpin access to public services by citizens is critical to the successful delivery of the eGovernment strategy.

With effect from the 2018/19 academic year, MyGovID will be used by SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) as the user authentication mechanism, to provide access to the online student grants system. Student grant applicants will also have to be SAFE (Standard Authentication Framework Environment) registered in order to make an application.

Submission of a student grant appeal from the above academic year, will also require the appellant to be SAFE registered - this registration will already have been carried out prior to making the original grant application to SUSI.  Online submission of an appeal will also use MyGovID as the user authentication mechanism.