Your PPS number and Irish Water.

Via solicitor Simon McGarr:

When challenged on how it has the right to ask for people’s PPS numbers, Irish Water has said that it is a specified body under statute. This is a reference to Section 20 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2014….

[However] This use is subject to prior agreement with Minister for Social Protection….

No such agreement between the Minister for Social Protection and Irish Water is anywhere shown on the Irish Water website or on the Department of Social Protection website.
However, the Department of Social Protection has published a statement from Irish Water on its website saying that the agreement is still not in place, as of September 2014.
“This arrangement has not been finalized at this time but we are engaging with the DSP”
If there is no agreement in place with the Minister, on what statutory basis is the collection and processing of PPS numbers taking place?

Anyone?

Irish Water, PPSNs and the missing Minister’s agreement (Simon McGarr Solicitors)

Thanks Brian S