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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: For example, somebody may have applied for another payment but may not have actively engaged in the SAFE 2 process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I know PSCs were issued to people who were already in receipt of payments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I know the Department would engage with people but were any PSCs issued without people having known that they were engaging in the SAFE 2 process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I had also-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: The photograph is new.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: No. The SAFE 2 standards refer to photographic-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Lowry might comment also on the questions I asked in relation to the Data Protection Bill which is currently before the Houses. I refer to the exemptions and the fact that a Minister only need consult with the Office of Data Protection Commissioner. As we have seen in the case of the PSC, when the Data Protection Commissioner has raised concern it was followed with an advertisement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Those are my questions and they were not answered at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: In the current data sharing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I am sorry, I had one question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Services Card: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: Concerns have been expressed that there are gaps in the current data sharing agreements between DPER, that is, Mr. Lowry's Department, and the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is also encouraging the roll-out to public services despite the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner's concerns.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: We are hoping for an honest response from the Minister of State in which she engages with our proposals. I imagine how any of us is dressed has little to do with that. I will not reiterate the points Senator Ruane made; they are very detailed arguments. It is clear that we have been listening to the Minister of State. We are not interested in coming in here simply to score political...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: On a point of order, even though I may not agree with Senator Murnane O'Connor, she spoke to the functions.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: That is the section that is being amended.
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: I spoke at some length on a similar amendment on Committee Stage, so I will not speak at the same length on it now. I congratulate Senator Norris on improving the amendment tabled on Committee Stage and strengthening it further. It has been spoken to, and while people may say that this seems like an academic exercise, as was said earlier, this an academic exercise. We are putting in place...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: "In so far as possible" can be interpreted quite heavily and has been in the past. "In so far as practicable" and "in so far as possible" have been a point of legal debate in this country in the past. There could be a genuine concern, when saying "in so far as possible", that there could be an opportunity for a new area of research to be entrepreneurial in that it may create profit for...
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: On a point of clarification, I believe-----
- Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)
Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a point of order.