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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We have exhaustively gone through this with the Attorney General. All of the questions that Deputy Wallace asks have been clarified. As constituency Deputies we all deal with people who are applying for SUSI grants. Imagine what life would be like in the month of August if those people had bundles of forms under their arms going around the country from body A to body B to body C because...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: They will have to give written consent to each individual public body involved.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am not trying to dismiss the concerns of Deputies Wallace and Jonathan O'Brien. I, too, have legitimate concerns, particularly about the way data are being handled in the private sector. There have been recent examples of problems in that area. Deputy Wallace has done a lot of very positive work on the penalty points issue, for example. Imagine a situation where a driver would not give...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: It may not be the intention but that would be the net outcome of the change.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will ask a rhetorical question. Who is going to consent in this type of arrangement? There will probably be thousands of these agreements. How many does the Deputy suppose would consent to data sharing agreements with the Revenue Commissioners and other agencies on that basis?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: Perhaps the Deputy might like to enlighten me on how many people he would expect not to agree to such agreements.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is the net result.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: To reply to Deputy Jack Chambers, it is up to each service provider. The Bill makes it clear that it is up to each service provider to use the mechanism it believes is the most appropriate to determine the identity of the data subject, customer or citizen. If I were to accept the amendment in the names of Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly on the issue, I would undermine and it would be in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We have had a good discussion. To go back to what Deputy Jack Chambers said, if we were in any way to undermine the public services card, as the amendment would because it would prevent it from being used as an exclusive means to verify identity, where would it leave the people who are using it to access free travel? I do not think that is the intention. As I said in the earlier part of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is my intention to bring an amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: Amendment No. 5 seeks to change the definition of data sharing in section 9. The definition of data sharing was the subject of considerable debate in the Seanad, and the proposed definition here is ambiguous. A simple, unambiguous definition of data sharing is required, and that is what we have provided for in the text of the Bill in consultation with the Attorney General. Section 13 sets...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: No.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: No. We discussed this in the Seanad as well. Part of the reason for this section is that we do not know what other types of public bodies may be constructed in the future. Rather than having to come back and amend this legislation if a new public entity is established, we are allowing the situation to develop in the future. This is really a "just in case" provision. It is there just in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: No. The Bill is explicit on this in the subsection to which the Deputy referred. It states:The Minister may, at the request of a body that would not otherwise be included in the definition of “public body” in subsection(1) and with the consent of the Minister of the Government in whom functions in relation to that body are vested. Such a body would have to have its functions...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 8:In page 15, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“(d) in a case in which the second mentioned public body is engaged for gain in the production, supply or distribution of goods or the provision of services, the use by that public body of the personal data could not lead to the distortion of competition in trade in those goods or services in the State or...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 9:In page 15, to delete line 14 and substitute the following:“(f) the disclosure of the personal data is—(i) necessary for the performance of the functions in relation to which the information is being disclosed, and (ii) proportionate in the context of the performance of those functions and the effects of the disclosure on the rights of the data subjects...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 12:In page 17, lines 14 and 15, to delete “published and made available to any Oireachtas committee on request” and substitute “in writing”. These are technical amendments which concern reporting requirements under the Bill. In the Seanad, I accepted an amendment to section 17 which would provide that an Oireachtas committee could request...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I presume that it is a ruling of the Houses of the Oireachtas, based on the advice from the Attorney General. I can clarify on Report Stage that that is the ruling of the Houses of the Oireachtas, that is, our own rulings.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 13:In page 18, to delete line 33 and substitute the following:“(r) include in a schedule to the agreement a statement summarising the analysis of the parties in relation to the extent to which—(i) the disclosure of the information is necessary for the performance of the functions in relation to which the information is being disclosed, and (ii) the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No 14:In page 20, to delete lines 23 and 24. I will withdraw the amendment but I may propose a revised wording to section 21(6) of the Bill on Report Stage.