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Seanad: Summer Economic Statement: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: However, it is not a situation where one can take the good stuff only. One has to take an holistic approach to what is happening and have an honest and open discussion. One cannot drive an economy and a country off a cliff and fix it in five years without scarring and there has been, as the Government acknowledges. Several Members addressed our level of indebtedness. It was almost like a...

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not interrupt anybody. If there is a fixed amount of money and growing demand, one can either increase the level of indebtedness or decide not to fund things one is already funding. I listened to a range of things that we would love to do, but I did not hear one Senator say we should not do this and that we should cut that, because it would not be acceptable politically. Senator...

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not interrupt the Senator.

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Senator cannot rattle the cage and get away with it that easily.

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: Senator Rose Conway-Walsh mentioned corporation tax, as did Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. There are many people in County Mayo working in foreign and direct investment companies. They get up in the morning, bring their children to a crèche and work hard on three and four cycle shifts. They would be gobsmacked to hear it was seriously being suggested that we do...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Senator's amendment proposes the deletion of section 5(2) and (3) of the Bill, which relate to section 38 of the Data Protection Act 2018. This section of the Data Protection Act provides that a Minister may make regulations for the processing of data for a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority. Data sharing is included in the definition of...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I think there might be some confusion because the Bill currently requires public bodies to enter into formal data-sharing agreements to share data that set out, among other things, that the data will be shared, the purposes for which it is shared, as outlined in the Bill, the processing that will be carried out in the data, and how the data will be kept. The Bill also requires that the...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not want to labour the point, but, as we go through the Bill, particularly the reason the data governance board and the concept of proportionality are taken as a given, in the sense that we must have regard to existing legislation and the GDPR, that we have put in place a data governance board to protect the interests of citizens and public bodies, that we have the backstop of the Data...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We need to go back to when the Bill went through pre-legislative scrutiny and the Data Protection Commissioner was given sight of it. It is important to point out that the observations of the Data Protection Commissioner and those involved in pre-legislative scrutiny have been incorporated in the Bill. On whether we have the luxury of waiting, I draw attention to a point I made on Second...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Bill in its current format does not permit the sharing of personal data under section 12. Section 12 spells out what can and cannot be shared. Many of the concerns raised by the Senator are addressed in section 12.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I did not say it said that. Section 12(1) states:This section applies to the disclosure of personal data (other than special categories of personal data) by a public body to another public body, where there is no other enactment or law of the European Union in operation under which specific provision is made permitting or requiring such data-sharing. We have had regard to the GDPR and other...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I can clarify that immediately. If they are biometric data, they cannot be shared in that manner.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: There has been a great deal of engagement. I acknowledge that the Senator has engaged and I thank her for doing so. She referred to Google Spain, which is a private body. This Bill refers to two public bodies. It is not necessarily comparable. The Bill refers to a number of prescribed public bodies. The prescription of the public bodies will make it possible for the Minister to add...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I agree with Senator Higgins on one point, namely, that nobody present claims to have the knowledge of the Data Protection Commissioner. While the Data Protection Commission has been silent on certain matters, that is not to suggest the commission either supports or opposes anything. However, after the heads and general scheme of the Bill were published and circulated, they were scrutinised...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: In her last sentence, Senator Higgins articulates the reason we are here. We are doing this for the benefit of the citizen and to make it easier for the citizen to avail of public services and to do so in a legal framework that is compliant with the law. I draw attention to section 9(1)(q), which refers to "any other body specified in an order made under subsection 4".In other words, while...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: These amendments relate to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and its relationship to this Bill. In the amendment tabled in respect of section 6, the Senator has proposed that the public services card, or the underlying public service identity data associated with the card, cannot be used as the sole basis by which a person may confirm his or her identity to access a service....

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: There is nothing in the Bill to suggest a reference to the security of the State or anything of that nature would be included in the provisions. It is a matter for each individual Department and agency to decide the most appropriate form of ID. The Senator is entitled to her view, but a lot of what she has said is already the law and included in the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005....

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Senator is right that the definition of data sharing in section 8 is quite wide. If I came here with a narrow definition, I am sure we would be having a different debate and Senators would be arguing that the Minister was trying to restrict what was covered by the Bill for the purpose of the establishment of data sharing agreements between agencies and was doing so to suit himself. The...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: As I said, the reason there is a wide definition of public bodies in the Bill is the same reason to which Senator Higgins referred. If I excluded the Health Service Executive, an education and training board, An Garda Síochána, the Commissioners of Public Works or another body, I would be pilloried and people would say it was more of the same and the Government was covering...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The GDPR and the Data Protection Act and the Bill are different because the main thrust of the Bill is in regard to data sharing agreements. As I stated, a person with legal qualifications is involved in the signing of those agreements and that is one of several differentiating factors between the Bill and the Act to which the Senator referred. In regard to the wide remit to which the...