Donohoe ordered that PSC system be used

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs was ordered to make the public services card (PSC) the only way for people to access the new National Childcare Scheme as it did “not make sense” for the department to be allowed to develop its own application system.

Public Expenditure and Reform Minister Paschal Donohoe said his department had dramatically ordered that an alternative application method be scrapped because allowing the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to incorporate its own online system would serve to spend “taxpayers’ money on two different systems to do the exact same thing, where one reusable, legal and secure alternative exists”.