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

Patrick O'Donovan: The debate on this Bill is not the forum for the point the two Deputies are making. That forum is the debate on every piece of legislation that prescribes a method for the collection of data for a particular service, which this clearly does not. Deputy Daly referred to the use of the passport. That is a very good example. How would a person even get a passport under the Deputies'...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: That would be the net result of the Deputies' amendment. This amendment would provide a legal basis for a person to opt out of providing the very basic information which is called the public service identity. In fairness I understand the Deputies' concern. However, the net result of their amendment would be a collapse in most of our public services, including the provision of the one...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: As I said on Committee Stage, this Bill in no way seeks to specify or prescribe the methodologies for any service that the State provides, it relates explicitly to the mechanism available for sharing information between two different bodies. I thank Deputy Jonathan O'Brien for his engagement. His question is one for the Department of Employment and Social Protection which we are not...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: The Minister might provide the Deputy with the information on the way out of the Chamber. I can say categorically that in no place in this Bill are we specifying any mechanism for any service. It is entirely up to the line Minister and their Departments, through legislation, to proscribe those methods. The last two lines of amendment No. 5 tabled by Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly are...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 1:In page 10, lines 9 to 11, to delete all words from and including “excepting” in line 9 down to and including “data” in line 11. From the outset, it has always been my intention that this Bill would not apply to the sharing of special categories of data specified in Article 9 of the general data protection regulation, GDPR. At the outset, I...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 2:In page 10, line 13, to delete “and compliant with Article 9 of GDPR”.

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 3:In page 10, to delete lines 21 and 22 and substitute the following: “(5) In this section— “specified body” has the same meaning as it has in section 262 of the Act of 2005; “public service identity” has the same meaning as it has in section 262 of the Act of 2005, subject to the modification that the reference, in the...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, to delete lines 23 to 25. I will also speak to amendment No. 10 and respond to amendment No. 5, which has been proposed by Deputies Wallace and Daly. Amendment No. 4 proposes to delete section 7(6) and amendment No. 10 will have the effect of removing section 37(5) of the Bill. Both of these were amendments made to the Bill on Committee Stage, which I...

Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 5:In page 6, to delete lines 28 to 31. On Committee Stage I undertook to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage to remove the requirement for a commencement order to bring the provisions of the Bill into effect. This will ensure the maximum number of public servants can avail of the new compulsory retirement age of 70. If the amendment is agreed, the Bill will...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We might make a saving.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 1:In page 7, to delete lines 13 to 17 and substitute the following: “(7) The Director shall have all such powers as are necessary or expedient for, or incidental to, the performance of his or her functions and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Director may request in writing a Minister of the Government or other body to provide to him or...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 2:In page 8, line 8, to delete “or” and substitute “and”.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 3:In page 8, line 39, after “in” where it secondly occurs, to insert “any paragraph of”.

Appropriation Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: No, I have nothing further to add.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Order for Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move: "That the Second Stage be taken now."

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." 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. The first was that the commission became the sanctioning authority for expenditure, for deciding on staff numbers up to...

Appropriation Bill 2018: Order for Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Appropriation Bill 2018: Second and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the warm welcome afforded to my son and my wife, Eileen. I hope we are all on the nice list for Santa and not his naughty list. I am sure he will come to all of us. The Appropriation Bill 2018 is an essential element of financial housekeeping that, as Members are aware, must be concluded by the...