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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The incentives are for people who do not and will not save. The incentives relate to matching from the employer and from the State. It would be appropriate to have at least one of the four options be a low or no risk option. I am not simply talking about the State underpinning it but also about those who are seeking what will be a contract for perhaps 100,000, 200,000 or 300,000 people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: One does not suffer tax relief, though. Tax relief is not income. It is a public subsidy. It is a balancing of the goods. It is simply a matter of saying that this is public expenditure and that they will still have whatever they put in so far. They benefit from tax relief on a yearly basis so there is nothing that they have not benefitted from. There is a matter of deciding if we spend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: They intersect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is very positive that people can make voluntary contributions to the contributory pension but it is currently quite difficult to do so. I have often pushed for it to be made easier to make voluntary contributions to the contributory pension. Those on particularly low incomes may be concerned that the scheme may affect their eligibility for the non-contributory pension. I recognise the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The larger representative organisations have been quite clear in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I also asked about community and voluntary sector employers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System: Discussion (11 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The individualisation of means testing could be one way to tackle that issue such that if one person in a household engages in the scheme it does not jeopardise another member of the household who is hoping to avail of the non-contributory pension. That area may need to be considered.

Seanad: Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Motion for Earlier Signature (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Senator Devine indicated that she wanted to speak.

Seanad: Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Motion for Earlier Signature (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: She did so at the end of the debate on the Bill.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will comment briefly on this because it is a new amendment. I do not have a counter amendment. Concern has been raised about the single customer view dataset associated with the public services card, PSC. The Minister of State referenced the PPSN but the single customer view dataset is wider than that. The issues are subject to some debate around interpretation. I refer to special...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Those issues will arise but I expect they can be debated in the Dáil.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Can the Acting Chairman clarify whether we are also speaking to amendments Nos. 16, 22, 24, 34 and 82 in this group?

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister of State and I acknowledge that there have been some significant steps forward on this, notably the provision in his amendment No. 2, which makes it clear that nothing in this Bill, except Parts 5 and 8 and Chapter 3 of Part 9 shall apply to special category personal data alleviates many of the amendments. Many of my amendments were submitted prior to the Government...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On the basis of the Minister of State's clarification of his acceptance of amendment No. 8 I will not move amendment No. 7.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 8:In page 10, line 3, after "identity" to insert the following:"excepting such parts of that public service identity which constitute special categories of personal data".

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 9:In page 10, line 5, after "Act" to insert "and compliant with Article 9 of GDPR".

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 10:In page 10, line 8, to delete "section 12(2)(a)(ii)(VIII)" and substitute "section 2(2)(a)(ii)(III) or (VIII)".

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: What is the grouping?

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My concern is with regard to the only exemption to a specified body disclosing a person's public service identity information to another specified body. The intention of the amendment is to expand the grounds not to be considered appropriate for the sharing of somebody's personal information with a specified body. Avoiding the financial and administrative burdens that would otherwise be...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: As the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan made clear, there is a right to object, but I hope a better way of dealing with it will be found in the Dáil. This amendment is not simply about objecting to the processing of personal data because in many cases people do not object at all but they may object to an automatic mechanism being put in place as to how their data will be processed....