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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: As is common between State bodies and regulators or people who have a supervisory role, there were professional differences of opinion between Ms Dixon and the Department on some of the core elements of her report. Is that a fair statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: In the preparation of the report, I imagine that Ms Dixon had to rely on legal opinion. One of the core issues was a difference of opinion on the legal underpinnings of the card and its workings. Did Ms Dixon rely on in-house legal advice or was she obliged to purchase an external legal opinion? If the latter, what was the cost?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: That was not bad. In a reply to a parliamentary question on the issue and on Ms Dixon's report, the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, stated:The Department sought to meet the DPC on two occasions since receipt of the report with a view to outlining the basis for its conclusions and seeking to clarify a number of matters of concern relating to inconsistencies both within the DPC's report and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: I accept that. I just wanted Ms Dixon to put that on the public record because I think that is important. I used the phrase "professional disagreement" earlier. When I read the report I think it goes a bit further than that because I am looking at the sections that talk about when Ms Dixon had a draft report and a reply was sought from the Department. What we are looking at is process and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: I know Ms Dixon has to be diplomatic, but to say it is "not the norm" is an understatement. I can imagine what I would do if I was in her position and I got 470 scanned pages. I imagine that what she was looking for was a formal, intelligible response and what she got was 470 scanned pages. Was there a follow-up to that? Did Ms Dixon write back to the Department and say that was not...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Page 22 of the report states the Department was responding to the report. It says, however the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection objects to the DPC's use of such language in this regard. That was to describe the evolution of the card in the first place and considers that it is "pejorative and sensationalist". Again, that strikes me as not being fully co-operative, in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Departments can have entrenched and strongly held views but they also have to fairly co-operate with Ms Dixon's office, as anybody does, because as I said earlier, the Data Protection Commission's reach is into both the public and private sector. We must have regard when we receive correspondence, as we do, to data protection. We must do it as individuals and as Members of the Oireachtas....

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: This is my final question. I am aware that other members want to contribute as well. I thank Ms Dixon for her responses. A number of Departments were using the card, namely, the Departments of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Education and Skills, Justice and Equality, Foreign Affairs and Trade, Children and Youth Affairs and Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Following the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: It has been reported that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport has in some areas ceased using the card. From Ms Dixon's knowledge - I know she cannot speak about what she does not know - which Departments have changed their practice? She has given a direction. Are Departments still operating outside the law from her perspective? They might have a different perspective on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: The question I put was partly related to that but also to Ms Dixon's view that some Departments are still operating outside of the law. Her findings were that there was no legal basis for the card beyond the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and that data were held by the Department in a way which was potentially illegal, from her analysis. Is that still the case today?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: That is then subject to this appeals process or enforcement process.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: Where is that at the moment? What is the timeframe for when will there be some conclusion to that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

David Cullinane: I thank Ms Dixon.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: Two weeks ago, when the Taoiseach was absent from the House, I raised the issue of the south-east palliative care centre. The matter was addressed by the Minister for Health, who promised to meet a delegation of local Oireachtas Members. So far, he has not done so despite several requests from those Members. This centre cost in question more than €30 million to build. Capital...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: We will divide the time on the basis of four minutes, three minutes and three minutes, respectively. I commend the Green Party on bringing forward this motion. I understand I do not need to move the Sinn Féin amendment to the motion but if I am required to do so, I will do that. Sinn Féin is committed to a sustainable afforestation strategy and we recognise the importance of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (1 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the public services card will soon be required to make an appeal to his Department in relation to the provision of access to school transport schemes in view of the fact that under the current system of school transport appeals, if an appeal is submitted online or offline, no identity validation or description is required; the way...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating Administration (1 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: 449. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of houses nationwide in need of retrofit by retrofit scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39384/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: The need for expanded cardiac services in the south east has been a big issue for people who live in the region. On foot of a number of meetings with Members of the Oireachtas of all parties from across the south east, the Minister for Health agreed to carry out a national review that would look at the provision of primary percutaneous coronary intervention, PPCI, or emergency cardiac care...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: The Minister's speech clearly sets out the work of the review group. The group has done a lot of research and has met with many stakeholders. Its members are visiting PCI centres in this State and internationally. I support the group's work because the decisions made will have to be underpinned by clinical evidence and good clinical governance. I asked for the Minister to give us an...

Industrial Action by School Secretaries: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

David Cullinane: I welcome the debate. It is obvious from all the contributions by Members of all parties and none that there is universal acceptance that something needs to be done. There is goodwill on this issue across the House and it is the Minister's job to translate that goodwill into action. I heard the Minister respond to this issue during Questions on Promised Legislation earlier in the week....