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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In the spirit of what we are outlining.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Is the Minister not in a position to give us any indication on that at this point in time? The Minister stated he would like to get this to Report Stage before the summer recess.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is not the case.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: All right.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is a very welcome development in political cohesion here across these Houses.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Does the Minister has any further comments to make?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Business of Select Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank the Minister for his attendance. I understand the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality will meet with him in the afternoon.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (28 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reassess the case of a person (details supplied) who has been refused a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30337/17]

Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The abolition of our town and borough councils in 2014, following the enactment of the Local Government Reform Act, was a sad day for democracy in Ireland. A total of 80 town and borough councils were abolished and 95 municipal districts were established. In my constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, we lost eight town councils. When one considers that each of those had nine elected members, that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (27 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the regularisation of school secretaries across the national school sector; his further plans to address the issues of pay, hours to be worked, pension entitlements and so on; his plans to ensure this will be a priority issue in the absence of plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29553/17]

Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 provides for the statutory regulation of the 14 professions currently designated under the Act, namely, the professions of clinical biochemist, dietitian, dispensing optician, medical scientist, occupational therapist, optometrist, orthoptist, physiotherapist, podiatrist, psychologist, radiographer, social care worker, social worker and speech...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The undocumented Irish in the United States are being arrested by the dozen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Clare Daly and Senator Frances Black. I ask everyone present to switch off their mobile phones because such devices can interfere with the sound recording system. The purpose of today's meeting is to continue our pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017. I welcome Mr. Denis Kelleher, who is a barrister and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: I thank Mr. Kelleher. I appreciate both his written submission and his oral expansion on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If there are no other members of the committee with questions, I have a couple of points. There have been a number of questions focusing on local authorities and other public bodies. Does Mr. Kelleher believe that there is a need to upgrade the legislation about this area? I noted his earlier opening remarks where he talked about fines. At the end of the day, it is coming out of the one...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The other factor that is deserving of mention is that our local authorities are populated by directly elected representatives and by and large they, of all political hues, would be angered about the point that Mr. Kelleher made about moneys earmarked for a local public project having to go back. They are another break on people entrusted and employed within the system, ensuring that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Mr. Kelleher is not ruling out head 13 being revisited.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Cognisant of the fact that Mr. Kelleher is here in his wider professional capacity and not with regard to his current direct employment, I nevertheless also asked the Data Protection Commissioner a question last week which reflected on a series of cases that had been referred to me where vexation was clearly expressed where people had taken borrowings from commercial banks for mortgages and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In all of the cases of which I have been reminded, people were unaware. People take out these arrangements without going into the fine detail of the small print. It is not in small print for any other reason than to dissuade people from studying it in any great depth and they do not do so. Should there not be an obligation on financial institutions and others to state more prominently the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: That is most disquieting. As a first-born I am feeling very vulnerable. I thank Mr. Kelleher for appearing before the committee this morning and for his forthright responses to each of the members who participated. I wish him well.