Results 9,821-9,840 of 12,033 for speaker:Regina Doherty
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: Apart from the Deputy's personal insults which I will not stoop to respond to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: My words of respect for the Data Protection Commissioner are on the record. What is not on the record is the Deputy's proof that we were making mandatory the sole use of a PSC for the provision of all Government services. I note with interest the Deputy's sniping and spitting at me that his Government did this and that. Given that it has been a long time since he sat at the Cabinet table,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: -----the vast majority of the legislation that currently underpins the practice that this Government is now employing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: I beg the Deputy's pardon. He is wrong and with respect to him-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: -----and the position he holds, I will not lower myself to be as rude to him as he has just been to me. The legislation that currently covers the DPC was voted on by the Fianna Fáil Party, which did not object to anybody in the State having recourse to taking objection to a semi-judicial body making a statement of finding against them. The State has done this on numerous occasions with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: This is no different. The quasi-judicial rules and legislation that underpin the Data Protection Commissioner's office are exactly the same. I am not sure what the purpose of the Deputy's questions was. The Government legislation that has underpinned practice in this area for the past 20 years dates back to 1998 when it was introduced by the then Minister, Dermot Ahern. It was amended in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy may throw out anecdotes to feel smart but they do not reflect reality or the facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy stated it was Government policy to creep into other areas. That has not materialised. I do not know how his party used to conduct business but we certainly did not do it that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: Online.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: As I said earlier, as the lead Department that manages the data, we have a greater responsibility for implementation of the policy on the usage of the public services card than any other individual Department or line Minister. However, I do not have responsibility for telling the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Transport, Tourism and Sport, Agriculture, Food and the Marine or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: -----how they should direct users. They have that choice themselves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: That is fine and I do not want to split hairs with the Chairman. I am saying, however, that this never happened. A charge was made against me and the Government that we were trying to force everyone down a particular tunnel. That did not happen. As I said to Deputy Brady, I do not know what legal advice the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport received but he did not receive legal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: Why do they have no alternative?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: Does the Deputy have a question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: When did I do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: No, I laughed because Deputy Brady had said that there are only six in the country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: May I answer the question raised by the Deputy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: Deputy Brady asked if it is mandatory for people using the naturalisation service to have PSCs. It is not. It is mandatory for anybody applying for citizenship to have a PPS number. The only way to get a PPS number in the State is by going through my Department. We are all aware that the Data Protection Commission has said that I do have the legal basis to make people go through the SAFE...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy has made this suggestion with regard to the time when a person, over the age of 18 or otherwise, can apply for a passport and whether it is his or her first passport or one that has expired in the previous five years. For a person to apply online. he or she would absolutely need to have a PSC. How else would he or she identify himself or herself during the online process? During...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: I have not, and I ask the Deputy to withdraw that remark.