Results 2,221-2,240 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: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: I will be brief. The only way we have of knowing whether people have confidence in our use of their data is the results of the survey we conducted a number of years ago. The Senator may laugh and smirk-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: I am sorry, but the problem with the commentary here is that when we sit around in mediums like this, we refer to a very small number of organisations or individuals who have concerns. They are right to raise those concerns, as is the Senator. We never talk about the 3.2 million satisfied customers, or the 600,000 people who have absolutely no problem as they use their travel passes on a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: If we agreed with the fifth finding, we would have done something about it. We do not agree with it. We believe there is enormous transparency in what we do, how we do it, when we do it and - most importantly - why we do it. That is borne out by the response to the data survey we conducted in 2017. There was 85% customer satisfaction across all of the questions that were asked. One of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: That is not true.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: It is not true. The Deputy should go back and request a proper briefing from whomever gave him that information. We have never insisted that school transport appeals would require a PSC.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: With respect, anecdotal evidence is no basis on which to say that things were definitively going in a certain direction. It does more disservice to the Deputy to make such a disingenuous statement with no factual basis than it did to challenge me on the basis of supposedly being disingenuous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: The Deputy would have to ask the Data Protection Commissioner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection (21 Nov 2019)
Regina Doherty: They could always do so.
- 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.