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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: We will press amendment No. 29 on the same basis.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 35:In page 25, lines 2 to 4, to delete all words from and including ", and" down to and including "subsection" in line 4. This amendment relates to the designation of data protection officers. We are concerned that the essence of the GDPR and the rights of data subjects might be offset or undermined by the invocation of costs as an excuse. For that reason, we are...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 36:In page 25, line 12, after “include” to insert “in particular the following”. I will deal with a couple of the amendments and Deputy Daly will deal with the others. Amendment No. 36 is part of a bigger structural adjustment to this part of the Bill. The insertion of the phrase "in particular the following" is intended as an extra layer of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: If we follow Deputy Jim O'Callaghan's advice, we will have to start over with the Bill. We will explore this issue further and see where common sense lies. We will resubmit the amendments on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: Does the Minister think the best paid legal services in Europe will generate even more money in the years ahead?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 45:In page 27, to delete lines 27 to 29. We are interested in listening to the Sinn Féin position on this amendment. We might agree with Sinn Féin in opposing the entire section but for starters, I will set out the position on our amendments. The section seems to give far too much scope to third party data processing for non-statutory schemes, especially given...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Levels (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: 24. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the measures she has taken to address the above average unemployment levels which persist in County Wexford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19281/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Authentication (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: 37. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the tender recently published on her Department's website seeking the supply of facial image matching software to improve the performance of the SAFE registration process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19280/18]

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 52:In page 29, line 2, to delete “and special categories of personal data”. Much of the wording of section 38 is taken directly from the GDPR. I still think we have reason to be concerned about what the section might permit. Article 23 of the GDPR is the relevant part. It does not make an explicit distinction between the processing of personal and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I had better say something or the Minister will be disappointed. Deputy Daly and the Minister would make a lovely couple. Deputy Ó Laoghaire is right that journalism has a powerful role to play in democracy and in helping to ensure that we have a fair society, but sadly we do not have that yet in this country. We long for the day. I would defend the Minister's position on this.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: The next Government might be about three parties, rather than two.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I do not think so. Fine Gael might have had its fill of them this time.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will oppose the section. We might be deemed to be wiser to oppose it and adhere to the GDPR in full, rather than trying to shape the section. My amendment is a fall-back position if the section is not completely opposed. We would like to return to it on Report Stage. Article 9 of the GDPR is very clear that the processing of political opinion is prohibited without the full and informed...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I wish to address the point made by Deputy Jim O'Callaghan. If a really nice individual who I like comes to my door and asks me for my vote and I tell him that I will give it to him and he happens to be from Fianna Fáil, I might not want it to be made public or recorded that I was actually prepared to support Fianna Fáil. Someone might want to make a call and agree to support a...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I apologise, Chairman, but I meant to interject when we were on section 42. Perhaps I am too late, but there is something I wish to raise on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I reserve the right to speak and possibly introduce amendments about external databases that hold special categories of personal data. The ISideWith online campaign has data for more than 100,000 individuals which are available to be used in micro-targeting. They are held in the United States beyond the jurisdiction of GDPR, but they could still potentially be used in the future to affect...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 67:In page 31, line 24, after “subjects,” to insert “and subject to subsection (2),”. Recital 52 of the GDPR states exemptions in the processing of special categories of personal data can be provided for in member state law in settling claims for benefits and services under the health insurance system. I acknowledge that section 47 invokes...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: On the issue of "substantial public interest", German data protection legislation specifically restricts processing in this sense to public authorities, and I think we should do the same. We are talking about sensitive personal data and I do not see any reason private companies would be processing sensitive data for what is referred to as "substantial public interest".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: I wonder if this Seanad referred to by the Minister is the same one that his party was trying to get rid of not so long ago.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: So was I.