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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Data (26 Nov 2019)
John Brady: 484. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of not implementing the pension age increase to 67 years of age in each of the years 2020 to 2026. [48851/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: The Minister has answered some of the questions and has been misleading on others. I will return to that. This has been a shambles from day 1. The Department's handling of the Data Protection Commissioner's entire investigation, and even the format in which some of the material was sent to the investigation. I will not dwell on that as there are more important questions for which I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: No, I will rattle on if the Chairman does not mind. The Minister spoke of the incredibly strong advice received from the Office of the Attorney General that the card is legal under all circumstances which she outlined. This is the same Attorney General who briefed the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, and his officials and whose advice led to the withdrawal of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: These are the experts in the field.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: They have all said there is a wholesale breach of the general data protection regulation. The Minister is laughing. Is she questioning their qualifications, experience or knowledge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: I received a reply to a parliamentary question indicating that the Minister and his Department received legal advice from the Attorney General.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: On the basis of that, the mandatory nature of the PSC when applying for a driving test was withdrawn.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: Does the Minister not believe there will be repercussions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: How much taxpayers' money will be wasted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: In every contribution the Minister makes on the public services card she cites the 420,000 public service card holders as a massive success. She then refers to the 600,000 free travel journeys taken every week. She cites various statistics to back up her argument that the card is a massive success and says that is why people are using it. People had no alternative. The Chairman outlined...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: The Minister misled this committee on a number of occasions with regard to passports. Use of the public services card was a mandatory requirement for first-time passport applicants and applicants whose passport had expired more than five years previously. There was no alternative means of obtaining a passport other than having a public services card. That is a fact. The Minister needs to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: It was also a mandatory requirement - not just online - for anybody applying for naturalisation to have a public services card. Coincidentally, that requirement ceased on 16 August, the day after the publication of this report. Is that a coincidence? I do not think so. The Government took a fundamental position of forcing people to get a public services card to acquire these entitlements.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: I want to make one final point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: I questioned the legal experts that the Minister had looking at this matter. I raised the case of six Irish barristers, all of whom are leaders in the field as regards the general data protection regulation, who stated categorically that this is in breach of the GDPR. The Minister laughed at that which I do not understand. It is interesting to look at the freedom of information, FOI,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: -----while, on the other, she seems to be very interested in what they are saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: Why is the Minister belittling or dismissing the Irish experts who have all said that-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: When I raised it earlier, the Minister laughed as if to dismiss what I had said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: I said at least six.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: But-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
John Brady: The Minister has misled the committee on a number of occasions-----