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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: The breakdown should be in broad terms of the cases and then the geographical spread.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: On how many previous occasions has the State appealed a Data Protection Commission finding or report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: In reading through the eight findings made in the final report one can see that they are quite stark. The first thing that jumped out at me was that the Department had really made a pig's ear of it. All one can see is the law being broken. Ms Dixon said she had instructed the Minister to publish the report within seven days and that this had not been done. It was done after four weeks....

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: Was Ms Dixon surprised at the Minister and the Department, given that the commission had deferred issuing an enforcement notice to see if the Department would come on board with the findings made in the report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: Two other Departments seem to have walked away from use of the public services card, including the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The Tánaiste has also asked his Department to carry out a review of the criteria, especially as they apply to the Passport Office. If the card will not be mandatory or compulsory in obtaining a passport and given that the Tánaiste is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: To me, it stood out that the other Departments did not have full confidence in the use of the public services card if they were not prepared to use it as a mandatory form of identification.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: What does Ms Dixon believe the consequences for the Department will be in continuing the use of the public services card as a mandatory form of identification? What will the consequences ultimately be after the enforcement notice is issued and what will be the consequences if the Department does not adhere to the law?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: I have one final question for the Comptroller and Auditor General about the report on the roll-out of the public services card. Under the heading of project management, I note that he says there was no single business case document for the card.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: As has been said here, logic dictates that the objective would be to set out the case clearly, with a decision made to proceed and so on. I imagine, where a single business case document is not presented for any proposal, it can lead to problems. That is where a proposal would leave itself open. Is Mr. McCarthy of the opinion that it is very important to have a business case document?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: Hence the issues that have arisen since. Mr. McCarthy spoke of a fundamental requirement for the board but one could also call it "standard practice" to dot the i's and cross the t's. Is it because the business case was not presented and everything was not checked through that we are in the fiasco in which we are now? A pig's ear has been made of it and laws have been broken.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: Mr. McCarthy said the presentation of a business case was a fundamental requirement but that was missing from the start of this fiasco.

Health (Medical Entitlements in Nursing Homes) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: First Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Health (Medical Entitlements in Nursing Homes) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: First Stage (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: I move:That leave be granted to introduce Bill entitled an Act to provide for the continued access to medical card entitlements under the Health (Nursing Homes) Act 1990 for residents in nursing homes; and to provide for related matters. I wish to introduce the Bill on behalf of Deputy Ó Caoláin and on my own behalf. This Bill will ensure that residents of private nursing homes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Julianstown Bypass: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: I ask the officials to picture a small, picturesque village with a population of 600 through which in excess of 20,000 vehicles, including heavy goods vehicles, thunder every week. People have to see it to believe it. Trying to cross the road in the middle of the village of Julianstown involves taking one's life in one's hands. It is like trying to cross an extremely busy dual carriageway....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Julianstown Bypass: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: An enormous amount of land in south Louth and east Meath has been zoned for residential housing development in the next few years. That will compound the problem. Mr. Mullaney referred to the public transport option. Drogheda railway station is at capacity and passengers can barely get on a train at Laytown some mornings. I understand the DART expansion to Drogheda may not be delivered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Julianstown Bypass: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: While I accept that the Department needs to take on board public transport options, there are no realistic public transport plans to alleviate the daily congestion through Julianstown in the near future. If there were, Mr. Mullaney would have been able to tell us about them. Are they not all long-term plans?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Julianstown Bypass: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: A good few years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Julianstown Bypass: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: That will only deal with capacity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Julianstown Bypass: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)

Imelda Munster: That is my point. There are no foreseeable public transport options being put forward or Mr. Mullaney would have been able to give us that information. These plans are all long term. We have not had confirmation of a date for the expansion of the DART to Drogheda but 2027 has been mentioned.