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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 10:In page 10, line 33, to delete “an” and substitute “any reasonable”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 11:In page 10, line 38, to delete “which is prescribed for the purposes of this section and”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 12:In page 10, between lines 38 and 39, to delete all words from and including “which” where it firstly occurs in line 38 down to and including “appropriate” in line 39.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 13:In page 10, to delete lines 38 to 41.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 14:In page 10, line 43, to delete “an” and substitute “any reasonable”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 15:In page 11, line 12, to delete “or submit to”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 16:In page 11, line 16, to delete “an” and substitute “any reasonable”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 17:In page 11, lines 19 and 20, to delete “which is prescribed for the purposes of this section and”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 18:In page 11, lines 19 to 21, to delete all words from and including “which” in line 19 down to and including “appropriate” in line 21.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 19:In page 11, line 30, to delete “an” and substitute “any reasonable”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 20:In page 12, line 6, to delete “an” and substitute “any reasonable”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 21:In page 12, line 15, to delete “an” and substitute “any reasonable”.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move an amendment No. 22:In page 13, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 242 of Principal Act 6. Section 242 of the Principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (4)—(i) by the substitution of following paragraph for paragraph (a):“(a) his or her Public Services Card,”,and (ii) by the substitution of following paragraphs...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Data Protection Commissioner may say the Minister is entitled to do this in relation to the services of her Department but in respect of the public service card database, that is, the single customer view dataset, there has been a huge issue and a requirement around its deletion.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There are a number of findings. There are findings relating to getting or producing a public services card to access a service-----

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----and there are findings relating to the requirement for persons to have a public services card, which show that there has been a lack of clarity in the information provided on the purposes for which it will be used. Because of the lack of clarity, there is a very serious concern over the legality of retaining the data that was taken. Even if there is a better and more informative...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister is proposing that, in terms of accessing new social welfare services, an individual should be willing to agree to the blanket indefinite retention of personal data. Concern was expressed over this in finding 3. Finding 4 states, "The Data Protection Commission is not satisfied that the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 alone provides data subjects with sufficient...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Colleagues and members of a couple of the other parties are not present but I hope they will support my amendment. On the grounds that I would certainly like to engage with other parties to ensure I can put forward something very similar to amendment No. 22, with support from across the House, I propose to withdraw it. I will be reintroducing it and seeking to press it on Report Stage. I...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 23:In page 13, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"Amendment of section 263 of Principal Act 6. Section 263 of the Principal Act is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (3):"(3) A person shall produce his or her Public Services Card or other appropriate form of identification at the request of a specified body for the...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a couple of questions to seek clarification.In the instance where a case is put forward, when a decision is made, and someone wishes to appeal that case, can I clarify that this is a third stage or is it a replacement for the second stage of an appeal? Let us take as an example a case where someone disagrees with a decision by a case officer or someone else regarding a payment where...