✅ PAC head accused of ‘wholly untrue’ claims about public services card

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✍ The head of the Public Accounts Committee, Seán Fleming, has been accused of making “wholly untrue” comments about the public services card, it has emerged. Chief executive of Irish Rail Jim Meade has asked Mr Fleming to correct the record of the PAC after comments made by Mr Fleming about the purported use of the public services card for those with free travel entitlements. The letter, sent last week, refers to a meeting of the PAC on September 26th which the Data Protection Commissioner attended. “During the course of proceedings, you referred to a case in which a constituent who had previously been entitled to a carer’s pass, but whose entitlement to this had ceased, had been fined €1,048 by Iarnród Éireann. “In outlining details of the case, you stated ‘Iarnród Éireann used the public services card to collect information on the number of rail trips the person made’. This statement is wholly untrue.” Scanning of cardMr Meade says when a member of Irish Rail’s revenue prote ...
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