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new public services card

  • 04-02-2014 11:14am
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭


    Just heard about this. Its it just replacing the social card you got when you turned 18?

    Well it be replacing everyone's card?


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    The new Public Services Card is designed to replace other cards within the public sector such as the free travel pass and the social services card


    More http://www.welfare.ie/en/downloads/Public%20Services%20Card%20Free%20Travel%20FAQ.pdf


  • #3
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭cena


    biko wrote: »
    LMGTFY


    Ok, here it is



    More http://www.welfare.ie/en/downloads/Public%20Services%20Card%20Free%20Travel%20FAQ.pdf

    Thank you Biko.


  • #4
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    cena wrote: »
    Just heard about this. Its it just replacing the social card you got when you turned 18?

    Well it be replacing everyone's card?

    Hope so. I got mine at 16 and it has been used for so much swiping, opening jammed locks, cutting cheese and other substances, and gathered so much mank I can barely read my childish signature. It'd be good to have a card that can store and update information on all public services details. That said, I'm a bit Rain Man when it comes to ID numbers - can still remember my Leaving Cert one.


  • #5
    littlelulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 267 ✭✭littlelulu


    I got mine in December. They told me it will be rolled across the country and eventually down the line it will contain all of your information i.e health etc.

    Its cool though!


  • #6
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    hopefully it will include biometric information.

    *runs away*


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  • #7
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,513 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    hopefully it will include biometric information.

    *runs away*

    It will. Pretty impressive use of tech. Effectively there are actually computers in the cards and will be used by all government departments.


  • #8
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,590 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    It will. Pretty impressive use of tech. Effectively there are actually computers in the cards and will be used by all government departments.

    Do you need WiFi then?


  • #9
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    kneemos wrote: »
    Do you need WiFi then?

    no, it's a smart card. Put it up to a reader configured for it and the card can interact and draw power from it. Other than that it'll be constantly in standby.


  • #10
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    hopefully they will replace the "Cornflake box" bus passes.


  • #11
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    the groutch wrote: »
    hopefully they will replace the "Cornflake box" bus passes.

    They currently are, but at a very low number per week.


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