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Monday, 11 September 2017

Department of Finance

Public Services Card

Photo of John CurranJohn Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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183. To ask the Minister for Finance if the bodies and agencies under the remit of his Department plan to make services or payments dependant 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. [38148/17]

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department (Department of Finance) has no plans to make services or payments dependent on mandatory use and production of the public services card.

With respect to the eighteen bodies under the aegis of my Department, I have been advised that seventeen have no plans to make services or payments dependent on the mandatory use and production of the public services card.

In line with Government policy to develop a single authentication mechanism for customers to access public services and to get their due entitlements, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners is in discussion with the Department of Social Protection and the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer about how such a mechanism can be utilised by customers of its myAccount service.  Revenue’s myAccount is a secure online service which can be accessed by customers using their PPS number and a Revenue issued password or, alternatively if they have a verified MyGovID account (which is administered by the Department of Social Protection and is linked to the Public Services Card), customers can use their MyGovID details.  A transition to authentication via MyGovID will be introduced on a phased basis, starting with individuals taking up employment for the first time.

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