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Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Members who expressed their support for the Bill. I will respond to a few points that have been made. Senator Ned O'Sullivan is dead right that the Shannon Foynes Port Company is a great example for everyone in our area of north Kerry and mid-west region. It is a semi-State company that has the power, capability and drive to deliver to a region, and in this case it has...

Seanad: Appropriation Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: In terms of Senator Paddy Burke's proposal for the overspend, he is absolutely right. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and I are very conscious of the fact that as we embark on Project Ireland 2040, and so are about to spend €116 billion, we do not want to have the situation that we had in previous national development plans where projects came in over cost and, in many...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am pleased to present 2018 to the House. It passed all Stages in the Dáil yesterday. The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission came into existence on 1 January 2004 under the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003. The founding commission legislation in 2003 led, in summary, to two consequences: (1) that the commission became the sanctioning authority for expenditure, staff...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I welcome the support of the Senators. It is important to remember that the commission is a separate entity from the Executive, as is right and proper. Senator Ned O'Sullivan said that the role of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is to make sure that money becomes available. As a Member, I avail of the services provided by the commission, and it is in my interest, as much as...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (19 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will put the acting Chair down for a song.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (19 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a discretionary medical card for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53606/18]

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I discussed this at length with Deputy Chambers in committee and I thank his spokesperson for engaging with me and my officials in the past couple of days. We also discussed this at length. The provision that is referred to here is: "Any contracts in respect of consultancy, advice or other services to the board shall be subject to public competition." It is already the case in hundreds, if...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Jonathan O'Brien for his engagement. He will recall from discussions we had on the procurement element of the Bill, which is not in any other piece of legislation, that the net result of not accepting this amendment will be that these Houses will be clogged in the new year, amending hundreds if not thousands of pieces of legislation to insert this provision because in no other...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The answer is "Yes". I have already said to Deputies Jonathan O'Brien and Cowen that I am only delighted to hear any suggestions or proposals that any Member of the House can bring forward to me, as Minister of State with responsibility for public procurement, and engage with the Office of Government Procurement. That is a standing invitation to every Member of the House and Ministers,...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I propose that Fifth Stage be taken after the recess in the new year.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I suggest a date within the first week if that is agreeable to the House.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I suggest 15 January.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am simply looking for Fifth Stage to be taken in the first week back to seek advice from my officials, the Office of the Attorney General and to engage further with representatives of the Opposition, once the opportunity arises.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 11:In page 37, to delete lines 30 and 31.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 8:In page 20, to delete lines 34 and 35. This has the effect of removing section 21(6). Section 21 requires one of the parties to a data sharing agreement to be designated as the lead agency responsible for carrying out the functions specified in the section and elsewhere in the Bill relating to data sharing agreements. It sets out a number of functions that the lead...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 10:In page 33, to delete lines 25 to 27.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: Deputy Eamon Ryan's amendment is very clear. It refers to "such disclosure, only where expressed consent has been sought and received". We would probably need a database the size of County Cavan to hold all of the notional consents. I return to the original point. Who is going to consent in this Shangri-La to having his or her information shared between the Department of Employment...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Bill will give legal certainty in the services already being provided. The amendments passed mean that we are going to have a problem. Services being provided are being undermined. People need to start to take this issue more seriously.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I know that it is the night before the break-up before Christmas, but this is a very important Bill. Public services could, potentially, be undermined by some of the carry-on this evening. This is very serious.

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I shall speak first to amendments Nos. 6 and 9. The two amendments, in the names of Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly, propose that a person be allowed to opt out of the once-only principle that a person need provide details only once for a public body. The once-only principle is only one of a list of purposes in section 13 of the Bill, at least one of which must be engaged for the data...