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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Conlon can send the information to us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Fine.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am conscious that we are very short of time. These are questions I have already asked. When personal progression plans were discussed I had two specific questions. First, are people allowed to take the contract away, consider it and seek advice before they sign it? If so, are they advised of that? Second, can people decline to share information about their cohabitees or refuse...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Do they agree to give personal details in the contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That should not be prior to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a key point. Are they allowed to take the plan away and suggest amendments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Can someone physically take it away before they sign it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me, this is very specific. Will the Department advise Seetec and Turas Nua that people should be allowed to take their contracts away?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I think I see a solution to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: What about providing an exit route from JobPath into another suitable scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Yes, but Ms Murphy did not get much of an opportunity to answer some of the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (8 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is agreed subject to correspondence, and subject to the condition that we may also send correspondence to the Department.
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Excuse me, I can just about hear. We do not yet have the groupings in front of us. Can I clarify are these all Government amendments that are being discussed now?
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Sorry, I am not able to hear.
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is the amendment being-----
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Is it being proposed now?
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Why? Sorry, if this is an amendment, with great respect to the Leas-Chathaoirleach, we need to be given the opportunity to speak to it.
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Sure.
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I will begin by responding on the wider set of amendments. I will address the concerns raised by Senator McDowell. I do not think that he needs to be concerned in respect of those areas, although there are very serious reasons for concern in respect of other inadvertent consequences and loopholes which are opened up by section 43 of the Bill. I will pick up on one or two points which the...
- Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (22 Mar 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Under the GDPR and under my amendment, processing the data of persons who are in regular contact with a candidate or party is allowed under the GDPR. These might be, for example, people who have said that they would really like a referendum on a given issue and whom the candidate or party reverts to, has correspondence with and notes that they are interested in that area if the issue arises...