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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (12 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding Garda vetting and clearance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24424/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (12 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a new superintendent will be appointed to Bruff Garda station, County Limerick. [25066/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Education Policy (12 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 565. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if options for the promotion of second level schools for international students through Enterprise Ireland will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25139/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Corcoran Kennedy for raising this issue. Unfortunately, the issue has been raised on more than one occasion recently. It is not a new development and reflects poor payment practices in the construction industry generally. Former Senator Feargal Quinn's Construction Contracts Act was developed in consultation with industry to address these poor payment practices. The Bill...

Topical Issue Debate: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am not going to dispute any of the comments that Deputy Corcoran Kennedy has made. This matter has been raised not only by Deputies on this side of the House but by Deputies on the other side of the House as well. I note the attendance of the former Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin. He was the Minister responsible for navigating the Construction Contracts Bill...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the House for the opportunity to move this Bill. I am pleased to be here to introduce the Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 in Seanad Éireann. This Bill proposes a series of reforms to the way government shares data in order to improve public services as well as measures to improve the safe handling of that data by bringing consistency and improved safeguards to the way it...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was the city.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Acting Chairman and Senators for their contributions. I welcome that there has been such engagement on the Bill from the Members of the House, who are obviously very up to speed with its contents. I am very anxious to attend to the personal portal mentioned by Senator Higgins. The Tallinn Declaration, which I signed on behalf of the Government a number of months ago, is the EU...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The summer economic statement clearly sets out the Government’s determination to ensure our budgetary strategy is based on steady increases in public expenditure underpinned by stable and predictable tax revenue. Rather than a feast-or-famine approach to funding public services, we are committed to providing incremental and sustainable improvements that serve our people. This has not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (20 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the N24 through Oola, County Limerick will be resurfaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27066/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 492. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to real time recorders of speed in cars that can be shared with insurance companies, which would result in a cost reduction. [27856/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Approved Housing Bodies (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if new community-based housing bodies are eligible for capital funding for the construction of voluntary houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27847/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of loans that have been applied for and approved, respectively, under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by local authority in tabular form; the number of council officials in each local authority area who are dealing with the applications for these loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27876/18]

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Senator's amendment proposes the deletion of section 5(2) and (3) of the Bill, which relate to section 38 of the Data Protection Act 2018. This section of the Data Protection Act provides that a Minister may make regulations for the processing of data for a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority. Data sharing is included in the definition of...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I think there might be some confusion because the Bill currently requires public bodies to enter into formal data-sharing agreements to share data that set out, among other things, that the data will be shared, the purposes for which it is shared, as outlined in the Bill, the processing that will be carried out in the data, and how the data will be kept. The Bill also requires that the...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not want to labour the point, but, as we go through the Bill, particularly the reason the data governance board and the concept of proportionality are taken as a given, in the sense that we must have regard to existing legislation and the GDPR, that we have put in place a data governance board to protect the interests of citizens and public bodies, that we have the backstop of the Data...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We need to go back to when the Bill went through pre-legislative scrutiny and the Data Protection Commissioner was given sight of it. It is important to point out that the observations of the Data Protection Commissioner and those involved in pre-legislative scrutiny have been incorporated in the Bill. On whether we have the luxury of waiting, I draw attention to a point I made on Second...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Bill in its current format does not permit the sharing of personal data under section 12. Section 12 spells out what can and cannot be shared. Many of the concerns raised by the Senator are addressed in section 12.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say it said that. Section 12(1) states:This section applies to the disclosure of personal data (other than special categories of personal data) by a public body to another public body, where there is no other enactment or law of the European Union in operation under which specific provision is made permitting or requiring such data-sharing. We have had regard to the GDPR and other...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I can clarify that immediately. If they are biometric data, they cannot be shared in that manner.