It makes it harder to commit social welfare fraud. I don’t know why they don’t just say this instead of the line they trot out that it helps deliver services more efficiently
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Can get a credit card passport for EU use.
It doesn’t count as a passport at the electronic gates at city Airport though FYI @Bandage
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The tinfoil hate brigade (like me) are up in arms over it. People objecting to the Government being able to link every service back to one overall account/person. They are also expanding the requirements for it from beyond receiving social welfare payments to applying for passports etc. But remember it’s mandatory, not compulsory.
Not accepted in the States either. Handy for flitting around Europe though.
This is it exactly. Like just come out and say it instead of denying it and having hateful cunts like Regina Doherty saying well the card is not compulsory but it is mandatory to access Social services. It was first introduced for social services that if you were accessing social services that you would need one, grand no problem but now it is extending to Passport and drivers licences so every body will need one regardless of whether you avail of social services or not. That is the main problem that I would have that it is just sneaky, why not come out and say it.
I’d say the concerns that people have is the personal information that can be shared and the I suppose the lack of trust in the government not to sell that information on or use it for other means.
Just put the chip in our arm and be done with it.
which is cheaper the chip in the arm or a barcode tattoo that is put on when you are born?
Wow. Says the man who was grandstanding on here about renting out his ‘malahide’ house when he went off to Oz for a few months.
I gave it at a nominal rent to a homeless charity
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Yeah right.
its a great idea. it will stop the tinkers drawing dole in multiple locations. reasonable people with nothing to hide will be in favour of it
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i wonder did he declare it to revenue and register with the prtb?
Of course you did. So you fucked a poor family out on the street when you returned with your tan and necklace?
How will it do that? They can still have a baby baptized in multiple locations and create multiple identities.
they can have multiple identities for God there is no harm in that but a tinker baby gets just one birth cert like the rest of us.
its a very very good idea, im hearing face recognition being mentioned. its a game changer for this country.
The ID card has no legal basis for precluding people from getting payments. That’s the issue. They need to update the 2005 legislation and pass it in the dail. Whether it’s s good idea is irrelevant, it’s the action of a totalitarian state to impose this without proper discourse
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nope, I set them up with an apartment in the Marina
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Do you use your baptismal cert to claim social welfare?
Could never understand the objection to national ID cards.