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Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 2:In page 10, line 13, to delete “and compliant with Article 9 of GDPR”.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 3:In page 10, to delete lines 21 and 22 and substitute the following: “(5) In this section— “specified body” has the same meaning as it has in section 262 of the Act of 2005; “public service identity” has the same meaning as it has in section 262 of the Act of 2005, subject to the modification that the reference, in the...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, to delete lines 23 to 25. I will also speak to amendment No. 10 and respond to amendment No. 5, which has been proposed by Deputies Wallace and Daly. Amendment No. 4 proposes to delete section 7(6) and amendment No. 10 will have the effect of removing section 37(5) of the Bill. Both of these were amendments made to the Bill on Committee Stage, which I...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I said on Committee Stage, this Bill in no way seeks to specify or prescribe the methodologies for any service that the State provides, it relates explicitly to the mechanism available for sharing information between two different bodies. I thank Deputy Jonathan O'Brien for his engagement. His question is one for the Department of Employment and Social Protection which we are not...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister might provide the Deputy with the information on the way out of the Chamber. I can say categorically that in no place in this Bill are we specifying any mechanism for any service. It is entirely up to the line Minister and their Departments, through legislation, to proscribe those methods. The last two lines of amendment No. 5 tabled by Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly are...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The debate on this Bill is not the forum for the point the two Deputies are making. That forum is the debate on every piece of legislation that prescribes a method for the collection of data for a particular service, which this clearly does not. Deputy Daly referred to the use of the passport. That is a very good example. How would a person even get a passport under the Deputies'...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: That would be the net result of the Deputies' amendment. This amendment would provide a legal basis for a person to opt out of providing the very basic information which is called the public service identity. In fairness I understand the Deputies' concern. However, the net result of their amendment would be a collapse in most of our public services, including the provision of the one...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I shall speak first to amendments Nos. 6 and 9. The two amendments, in the names of Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly, propose that a person be allowed to opt out of the once-only principle that a person need provide details only once for a public body. The once-only principle is only one of a list of purposes in section 13 of the Bill, at least one of which must be engaged for the data...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Eamon Ryan's amendment is very clear. It refers to "such disclosure, only where expressed consent has been sought and received". We would probably need a database the size of County Cavan to hold all of the notional consents. I return to the original point. Who is going to consent in this Shangri-La to having his or her information shared between the Department of Employment...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Bill will give legal certainty in the services already being provided. The amendments passed mean that we are going to have a problem. Services being provided are being undermined. People need to start to take this issue more seriously.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that it is the night before the break-up before Christmas, but this is a very important Bill. Public services could, potentially, be undermined by some of the carry-on this evening. This is very serious.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 8:In page 20, to delete lines 34 and 35. This has the effect of removing section 21(6). Section 21 requires one of the parties to a data sharing agreement to be designated as the lead agency responsible for carrying out the functions specified in the section and elsewhere in the Bill relating to data sharing agreements. It sets out a number of functions that the lead...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 10:In page 33, to delete lines 25 to 27.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 11:In page 37, to delete lines 30 and 31.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I discussed this at length with Deputy Chambers in committee and I thank his spokesperson for engaging with me and my officials in the past couple of days. We also discussed this at length. The provision that is referred to here is: "Any contracts in respect of consultancy, advice or other services to the board shall be subject to public competition." It is already the case in hundreds, if...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Jonathan O'Brien for his engagement. He will recall from discussions we had on the procurement element of the Bill, which is not in any other piece of legislation, that the net result of not accepting this amendment will be that these Houses will be clogged in the new year, amending hundreds if not thousands of pieces of legislation to insert this provision because in no other...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The answer is "Yes". I have already said to Deputies Jonathan O'Brien and Cowen that I am only delighted to hear any suggestions or proposals that any Member of the House can bring forward to me, as Minister of State with responsibility for public procurement, and engage with the Office of Government Procurement. That is a standing invitation to every Member of the House and Ministers,...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose that Fifth Stage be taken after the recess in the new year.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I suggest a date within the first week if that is agreeable to the House.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I suggest 15 January.