The Public Services Card (PSC) is designed to replace other cards within the public sector such as the social services card and free travel pass of this Department, and to make it easy for providers of public services to verify the identity of customer. A PSC is issued following a registration process which involves the capture of an individual’s photograph and signature and the verification of identity data.
At present, 98 of the Department’s locations nationwide are processing registrations for the PSC. 6 of these locations are in County Galway - in Ballinasloe, Gort, Clifden, Loughrea, Tuam, and in Galway city and a further 5 locations are in County Mayo – in Castlebar, Ballina, Westport, Achill, and Belmullet.
Considerable progress has been made in the national roll out of the PSC with over 1.59 million PSCs issued to date, which includes some 519,000 for Free Travel purposes. As of the 11th of September 2015 there were 69,601 adults (over age 18) resident in Co. Galway who had completed registration for PSC purposes, and the corresponding figure for County Mayo was 41,495.