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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 12:In page 17, lines 14 and 15, to delete “published and made available to any Oireachtas committee on request” and substitute “in writing”. These are technical amendments which concern reporting requirements under the Bill. In the Seanad, I accepted an amendment to section 17 which would provide that an Oireachtas committee could request...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I presume that it is a ruling of the Houses of the Oireachtas, based on the advice from the Attorney General. I can clarify on Report Stage that that is the ruling of the Houses of the Oireachtas, that is, our own rulings.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 13:In page 18, to delete line 33 and substitute the following:“(r) include in a schedule to the agreement a statement summarising the analysis of the parties in relation to the extent to which—(i) the disclosure of the information is necessary for the performance of the functions in relation to which the information is being disclosed, and (ii) the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No 14:In page 20, to delete lines 23 and 24. I will withdraw the amendment but I may propose a revised wording to section 21(6) of the Bill on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not agree. I intend to bring forward an amendment on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 17:In page 35, to delete line 23 and substitute the following:“(c) view a copy of a data-sharing agreement under which his or her personal data has been disclosed between public bodies, and”. These are a series of technical amendments to section 44, which provides for the establishment of a personal data access portal to allow citizens to see what personal...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 18:In page 35, to delete lines 27 and 28.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 19:In page 35, line 33, to delete “subsection (2)(a) and (b)” and substitute “subsection (2)(a), (b) and (c)”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 20:In page 36, line 5, to delete “subsection (2)(a) or (b)” and substitute “subsection (2)(a), (b) or (c)”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 21:In page 36, line 9, to delete “subsection (2)(a) or (b)” and substitute “subsection (2)(a), (b) or (c)”.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 22:In page 37, to delete lines 21 and 22. Amendment No. 22 removes the provision in section 46(6) that any contracts the data-sharing and governance board enters into in respect of consultancy shall be subject to public competition. This was an amendment to section 46 which was tabled and accepted in the Seanad. The Office of the Attorney General has since advised that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I will press the amendment. I accept the spirit of what Senator Higgins proposed. I am the Minister of State with responsibility for procurement. We want to avoid any situation where existing procurement contracts and contracts put in place through competitive practice, which are already laid out in frameworks and underpinned by European Union directives on procurement, would be in any way...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The procurement of any services by the Government and public bodies is not specified in any legislation. We do not do that as a norm. To underpin a specific element of public procurement in specific legislation could reflect on other public procurement and suggest that there is somehow an issue with the legality of it. Rather than do that, the established practice laid out under EU...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: What we are saying is that the procurement of consultancy services which, as I said in the Seanad, may very well be necessary and legal and accounting services, if we do not have that skill set, would be subject to existing procurement law. Procurement across all agencies, Departments and public bodies is already carried out under a strict code, for which I am the Minister of State with...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: If the members are agreeable, if the amendment is accepted, I will revert to them on this issue on Report Stage when I will provide further clarification.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy and I have had a lot of engagement and he knows that I have followed through on everything to which I have committed previously in the carrying out of legislation. If the committee is agreeable to the amendment, I will provide further clarification. If there is an amendment or insertion necessary that would not in any way conflict with how procurement law is currently carried...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I think the Deputy is an honourable person, I will meet him halfway along the road.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: In the full knowledge that it may be my intention to bring back the exact amendment-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 23:In page 38, line 1, after “2” to insert “persons”."

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 24:In page 40, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“Reporting 52. (1) The Board shall, not later than 30 June in each year, prepare and submit to the Minister a report on—(a) the performance by it of its functions under this Act, and (b) the matters, if any, on which advices have been provided to it by the committees, if any, established under...