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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Yes. This refers to an appeal to the Circuit Court and a subsequent appeal to a higher court. I will withdraw amendment No. 192 and press amendment No. 193 to a vote, if necessary.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 193:In page 120, line 38, to delete “, by leave of that Court,”.

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Bill has been passed.

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Let us pass it first.

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I support this interesting and innovative amendment by the Minister. It is innovative because it seeks to amend our money laundering legislation to include in its definition of criminal conduct acts of corruption which we have established under this legislation have been carried out by foreign officials. In particular, it seeks to identify criminal conduct as including the criminal offence...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will support the amendments. If a person receives a gift, a consideration or an advantage in return for an act of corruption, one of the penalties should be that that gift, consideration or advantage be seized. However, the way the legislation was drafted initially indicated that the gift could be seized if it had been offered or there had been an agreement to give it. In that situation,...

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: An raibh an t-Aire ag éisteacht ar maidin?

Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the amendment put forward by the Minister. We will support it. As the Minister indicated, this is a proposal that we put forward on Committee Stage. I am now on a very technical reading of the Bill as it was drafted. When one looks at Schedule 1, under "Irish Public Bodies", in paragraph (j), there is a reference to "a local authority". However, I think because of history and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Taking sections 39 and 40, if we are to define scientific research purposes, we should also define historical research purposes, statistical purposes, academic, artistic or literary expression. One cannot have just one definition of one type of exemption. A court which looks at it will know what scientific or historical research is. If it is the data commissioner, they should be aware of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: We will look at it. I cannot give a guarantee.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is important to remember that when a Minister makes a regulation, he is making law. We refer to it as being secondary legislation, but in effect any Minister when signing a statutory instrument is changing the law. It is common in every Act that a Minister may make regulations pursuant to the purposes of the Act. Deputy Daly's amendment is not enormously controversial. The first part...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 11:In page 16, to delete lines 14 to 16, and substitute the following:"(5) Subject to subsections (6) and (7)*, the Public Appointments Service shall recommend a person for appointment as Commissioner following an open selection competition held by the Service for that purpose.". There are two amendments in my name in the grouping, namely amendments Nos. 11 and 14, both...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: We are discussing the appointment of three people to be commissioners on the data protection commission. It goes without saying that they have to have expertise and to be people who are suitably qualified and understand the whole area of data protection. I know in certain areas of life and indeed government, there is a tendency to try to get away from expertise but expertise is required in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I have one amendment in this grouping and it is amendment is No. 27. Similarly to Deputy Shortall, my amendment seeks to change the age of digital consent from 13 years of age to 16 years of age. As we are all aware, under the GDPR each country is given leeway as to what age it wishes to set the digital age of consent. Let us remember that it can be between 13 years and 16 years. There...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I shall briefly give my views on the other amendments because I do not think I did when I spoke earlier. In respect of amendment No. 26 in the name of Deputy Ó Laoghaire, it is a bit vague to put in a reference to "for the purposes of financial gain" so I will not support the amendment. In respect of amendment No. 28, which is proposed by Deputies Clare Daly and Wallace which would...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 27:In page 23, line 16, to delete "13 years" and substitute "16 years".

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Will the Minister give us an example of what type of association or body would be covered by section 33?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Would it cover something like a residents' association or would that be too small?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Like the Minister, I will start with the easy part by agreeing with his decision to accept amendment No. 36. Amendment No. 37 proposes to delete paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) from section 35(1). However, it would simply move them to section 35(2). Amendment No. 38 which would insert the three paragraphs dealing with limitations and access to personal data, strict time limits and specific...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: My concern is that the legislation will be so impenetrable that individuals will not be able to move without consulting lawyers.