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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Mr. Sunderland for his opening statement. More importantly, I thank him for his submission. I am keen to contextualise this discussion of the balancing of rights. My mother gave birth to me in the Coombe Women's Hospital. From the moment I was born, or within a feasible administrative period, I had access to my birth certificate, which stated who my mother and father were. The...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: On the issue of the lawful basis of processing, a lawful basis is provided for by article 7(1)(e) and Recital 45 if we engage that purposeful legislative basis in the context of public interest. Does the creation of this legislation provide that lawful basis?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am happy to let Deputy Cairns proceed on the basis that it flows from what she has been asking.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: My questions are less complex. When I envisaged the coming into force of the GDPR, it was in the context of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, the modalities and storage of data now and the fact that our data can be transported, used and commodified so easily. I must confess I never considered it in the context of who the person fundamentally is. If one was arguing for Ireland or the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have come across difficulties for next of kin in getting information as to how people are in hospitals. People have a perception that next-of-kin status has a standing but it does not have any legal standing and there is no right to information attaching to it. Yet, we are prescribing in legislation a right to medical information for all the right reasons. It is perfectly reasonable that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Ms Gibney for her presentation. It is different hearing it read by its writer versus reading it myself, so it was good to hear her comments. I wish to get straight to the nub of the issue. It is great that information is being made available to adoptees, which is as it should be, but there is a competing right that the Government is trying to, and the State needs to, vindicate....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will come back in if there is time.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is there? Right. My follow-up question was about counselling and how there should be counselling, while also being aware that people perhaps cannot go to a counsellor in their town. I tend to think of things in Dublin because I am from Dublin and have always lived there but there are challenges when you are out in a rural community, that I know have already had to be overcome in the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes, and they need to be supported by enhanced powers to compel the information when it is in the hands of a third party.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Coming back to the relevant persons, in her opening statement Ms Gibney proposed the possibility that the relevant person in this instance may be deceased, and consequently it is reasonable that relatives become the relevant persons. This seems to set up a hierarchy of access whereby if the relevant person should get the information and in the event that the relevant person is deceased, then...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I wish to flesh this out. I would be of the view that it needs to be a bit wider and that it is too restrictive as it stands. Head 40 suspends GDPR rights for the purposes of birth information. As I read this, however, GDPR rights are not just rights of access, they are also rights of restriction and it is necessary that the right to restrict the disclosure of data is suspended in order...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am hearing the professor say that it is lacking in precision-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Professor Murphy.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: -----as opposed to its objective which is disclosure, and unfettered disclosure I would have thought.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am in Leinster House. My question has probably been answered in the replies to Deputy O’Callaghan’s questions I see section 247 and section 247A as the filtering mechanism to ensure that there is not a situation whereby An Bord Pleanála is seen to give permission that is contrary to development plans, and that it is absent in some instances. The judicial review, JR,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development (Amendment) (LSRD) Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (7 Sep 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for that and for all the hard work. I would have seen the SHDs as being a solution, had they operated as intended, to the change management we need to embrace in that we will have to go higher or have greater density and have a change in how people live as well. Coupled with the strengthened development plan process, the housing needs analysis and that all feeding into...

Seanad: Bullying and Sexual Harassment in Third Level Institutions: Motion (21 Sep 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I congratulate Senator Ruane yet again on a really fine piece of work. It is utterly intolerable that any bullying or harassment should happen in a third level college. Wherever there is a power imbalance, systems and procedures must be in place to ensure that those who would exploit their positions are curtailed in the extreme. It is utterly unacceptable for non-disclosure agreements,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will bring to the attention of the House the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report, commissioned by the National Disability Authority, which highlights employment rates among people with disabilities in Ireland. We are fourth lowest among the countries surveyed in that report. People with disabilities in Ireland are twice as likely to experience poverty and deprivation than...