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Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: As the chaos continues in Britain regarding Brexit with still no idea of how it will finish up, be it with a hard border, a soft border or, preferably from my point of view, no border at all, it is only right and proper that we are again discussing agrifood market concerns and priorities post Brexit. As I have said time and again, the number one priority should be and needs to be that, post...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 159. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to publish the report on the pricing review of the nursing home fair deal scheme that was to conclude on 1 June 2017. [15559/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: We shall commence in public session. I remind members to please switch off their mobile phones, as they interfere with the recording equipment. Apologies have been received from Senator Black. We shall first go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The purpose of this engagement is to discuss with the Data Protection Commission, DPC, its role following the introduction last year of the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and data protection issues in general. We are joined by Ms Anna Morgan, deputy commissioner; Ms Jennifer O’Sullivan, deputy commissioner; and Mr. Cathal Ryan, assistant commissioner, all of whom are very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Ms Morgan. Almost all of the committee members have indicated and Senator Martin Conway leads the pack.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Who would like to take up this question? Does Ms Morgan want to answer? All of the witnesses should feel fully at their ease to add something and they should indicate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Before Senator Conway leaves I must emphasise that he used the word "impeded" and, as Chair of this committee, I want to say to the witnesses that it is not just an isolated individual experience. I am saying, in full support of what Senator Conway has said, that this is a universal experience and impeded is exactly what is happening in terms of our representative function. It is a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Senator and call Deputy Jack Chambers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Deputy and the representatives of the commission. I call Deputy Wallace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: There will be a reshuffle, by agreement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If our guests wish to respond to any of the questions after the meeting, they might direct written replies to the clerk, who will circulate them to all the members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: For clarification, when the Deputy referenced me on the age of consent, she referred to all of us who remain on the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Deputy Clare Day stated that a number of her questions had already been asked by colleagues. She has done the same to me in respect of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS. I would like confirmation that INIS is accountable to the DPC regarding any issue that the commission wishes to raise and that those who are applicants for consideration by INIS in terms of their status...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: This is an area that needs to be addressed and not only in the context of the forwarding of material to incorrect addresses. There is a much more serious issue. I use the word "domestic". The selling of mortgages is a significant issue of address in these Houses. What does it entail? It entails the selling on of all of the data that is relevant to the borrower. Regarding a borrower...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Ms Morgan for that. There was a reference to policing to which Mr. Ryan responded. As a committee, we have given dedicated address in the course of this year's series of hearings to the whole post-Brexit situation. Does the commission anticipate any impact on its role with the advent of Brexit, whether by crash-out or agreement? From a justice perspective, we have had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate that very much. I welcome the fact that this is an issue that the Data Protection Commission has been addressing. It is important. Here we are on the cusp perhaps and it is quite alarming to find where there are so many gaps that people are only just saying, "Oh my goodness, what should we be doing." This will impact right across the board. People do not have a sense of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The unannounced visits have not started yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I appreciate that. The following is absolutely the last one - I am getting worse than Deputy Clare Daly. In the course of Ms Morgan's address to us at the outset, under "New trends", she stated that in light of the requirement on the Government to consult the DPC on certain new legislation, the DPC has reviewed and provided "observations on new and draft legislation, with 25 items of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Be it either detailed scrutiny or pre-legislative scrutiny, as the case might be, and whether it is Government or Private Member initiated legislation, the critical element for us in carrying out our functions is that we need to be fully informed. I listened fully to Ms Morgan's address and I thought it was interesting that I have been chairing this committee since 2016 and I have never seen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: It is worth noting. The reason I have raised it is to ensure better communication, transparency and ultimately better legislation because that is our function here in the first place. I thank Mr. Ryan, Ms Morgan and Ms O'Sullivan on behalf of the committee. It has been a very worthwhile engagement. The DPC is not even at the first anniversary of GDPR yet; there is another month to go....