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

Mick Wallace: According to page 45 of the annual report, which provides an update on the public services card investigation, a draft report of the investigation containing "13 provisional findings" was issued to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for comment in August 2018. I am curious about the use of the word "provisional" and I ask our guests to elaborate on it. In what way...

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

Mick Wallace: Will the commission recommend to the Department that it be published?

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

Mick Wallace: Would the commission consider a company using facial image matching software to match a photograph of a person to other photographs or digital images stored in a database to be processing biometric data? Does this kind of facial image matching meet the definition of biometric data in Article 4(14) of the GDPR and the reference therein to "specific technical processing"? Last year, the Data...

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

Mick Wallace: I was glad to see that the section of the annual report dealing with special investigations states that the Data Protection Commission has initiated a section 110 inquiry into surveillance by the State sector for law enforcement purposes. The smart CCTV project of Limerick City and County Council seems to have been abandoned because it will not comply with the GDPR and the Data Protection...

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

Mick Wallace: Mr. Ryan may send me the answers if he does not finish.

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

Mick Wallace: I do not wish to delay our guests and, therefore, if any of my questions were not answered, the DPC might revert to the committee with written correspondence. A fellow from my office, Adrian Naughten, eats GDPR for breakfast and I will be surprised if any questions were missing. I thank our guests.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (4 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces study group convened to review the standards of height for entry have presented their report to him; if so, if he will publish the report; if not, when the report will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15780/19]

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Thank you very much. I will spare the Tánaiste advice on Brexit, although I know the summit tomorrow will be dominated by it. I am sure he has enough wise fellows telling him what to do, but it is important that we put some other issues back on the table, as the two previous speakers have done. The corporate capture of the European Union and national governments has rarely been as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the 31 progress reports on the implementation of the vacant site levy he has received from local authorities; if he has considered changes or amendments to the vacant site levy further to the information contained in such reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16352/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered examining reducing the 0.05 ha minimum site size threshold for the vacant site levy given that over 160 sites were identified by Dublin City Council as being vacant but were under 0.05 ha; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16350/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The first question relates to the 31 progress reports on the implementation of the vacant site levy he has received from local authorities. I have received them via freedom of information request, but it might be helpful for him to publish them. They make for interesting reading and it is a pity it took so long to get these progress reports. Has the Department considered amendments to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Do I have two minutes this time?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The changes the Minister introduced to the vacant site levy are not adequate and have not tackled landbanking. I wonder if the Department has any interest in doing anything about it. The vacant site implementation report from Wicklow County Council shows that it looked at 158 sites. It highlighted a lack of clear understanding and interpretation of the legislation by internal staff in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The levy will bring in approximately €10 million on the sites the Minister mentioned because it was 3% of approximately €300 million and it will be 7% in the following year. As he knows, my Bill proposes a levy of 25% which would really encourage them not to bank land. Mel Reynolds has pointed out that in Dublin alone it could bring in close to €300 million in one year...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I thought I was supposed to have two minutes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Sites Levy (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The vacant levy is doing nothing to tackle land banking.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the increased number of bulk sales of apartments by developers to REITS or investment funds; his plans to counter this and the effect it has on the first-time buyer and rental markets; if he has had discussions with his colleague, the Minister for Finance, with regard to same; and if he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: A site adjacent to Central Bank Currency Centre in Sandyford, and owned by the Central Bank, was placed on the vacant site register by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2018. That site is bounded to the north by sports pitches and to the south by the M50 slip road. The Central Bank appealed its inclusion on the register and stated: "The site creates a security buffer enabling...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The legislation is rubbish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I have lost count of the number of initiatives on housing that have been brought in since we were elected to the House. One thing has not changed: housing remains unaffordable. The Government is not tackling the fact the supply of housing in this country is dysfunctional. It is double the price of mainland Europe for a three bedroom house within 30 km of the capital city. That is the...