Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
It is not that we had not envisaged having online services. The critical thing is that what we have built now is a facility for the agency providing the service to be able to verify the person's identity even though they are in an online environment. I will not say it is new technology but we are at the leading edge in terms of being able to do this. The facility that is now being put in place would not have been there in 2005.
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