Govt 'confident and proud' over digital IDs plan

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Children and Families Minister Josh MacAlister says the government is "confident and proud" of a new digital ID scheme, adding it will "modernise" the country and that the only people who lose out are those committing crime. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Our country faces a massive choice. Millions of people see every single day how bureaucratic,

00:07maddening, wasteful, slow, expensive it is to do basic tasks that with government take,

00:16you know, really problematic, but in the rest of their lives are actually quite straightforward.

00:20Countries around the world, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Australia, others have adopted digital

00:25ID and what that has done is it's modernised the state. It's allowed them to make things much more

00:32convenient and the only people who have lost out in those systems with those changes have been people

00:38committing crime, people committing fraud, people trying to work in those countries illegally without

00:43the right to work there and so we are really confident and proud of this change because it is

00:48a big decision the Prime Minister has made and it's a big call whether or not we do this. It was dodged

00:55for many years by Conservative and coalition governments. You're right to say it's opposed

01:02by lots of people, lots of political parties out there and we are up for the debate on this

01:07because we need to modernise the state.

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