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Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: This is an interesting amendment put forward by Deputies Clare Daly and Wallace. Since it was discussed on Committee Stage, I have had an opportunity to look in more detail at Article 22 on the issue of micro-profiling. It deals with decisions based solely on automated processing including profiling. It is worth pointing out that Article 22(3) gives specific recognition to the fact that...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: We took in Deputy Donnelly.

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move amendment No. 15:In page 29, line 2, to delete "13 years" and substitute "16 years".

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 5 o’clock I move amendment No. 15:In page 29, line 2, to delete "13 years" and substitute "16 years".

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the advantages of the amendment dealing with the digital age of consent is that we know, whether we go for 13 or 16 years, we are not going to be in breach of the GDPR because it goes out of its way to give a certain leeway to national states to decide the age at which they want to set it. I am not a Eurosceptic, but it does reveal the extent to which we operate with limited...

Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The three amendments under discussion all seek to provide greater protection for children under the Bill. Amendment No. 15 seeks to raise the age of digital consent from 13 to 16. I mentioned on Committee Stage that Fianna Fáil supports a digital age of consent of 16. I will not address that amendment today as my colleague, Deputy Thomas Byrne, will do so. I wish to address...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Sittings (16 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: 124. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to reduce the delay for the trial of criminal proceedings in the Dublin Circuit Court; if further judges will be assigned to conduct criminal trials on the circuit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21522/18]

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Deputy Wallace is playing the role of Deputy Ó Laoghaire and I will now try to play the role of the Minister. In amendment No. 4, subsection (3) states that an investigation under section 10 of the Act of 1988 that was begun but not completed before the commencement of this section shall be completed in accordance with that Act. It is virtually identical to what is sought in Deputy...

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: We are debating a series of amendments. We need to go back to what happened on Committee Stage when we made the novel decision that instead of having a situation whereby regulations could be retrospectively disapproved of, we put a provision into the legislation whereby statutory instruments would have to be prospectively approved. It is a novel approach. It was a worthwhile approach for...

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will hear what the Minister has to say first.

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is important to recall that on Committee Stage the select committee did something novel when Deputies decided to introduce a provision in the Bill that would-----

Data Protection Bill 2018: Report Stage (15 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: The Deputy may speak first, if she wishes. That is not a problem.

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (10 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome that the Government has eventually commenced the process of transposing the fourth EU money laundering directive into Irish law. The directive dates from 2015 and I understand it should have been transposed into Irish law by 26 June 2017. We will be doing well if it is transposed into Irish law by 26 June 2018, considering the fact that it has to go through Committee Stage in the...

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I move:"That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Deputies Jack Chambers, O'Loughlin, Michael McGrath, Cassells and Aylward. I am speaking for five minutes.

Gambling Control Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: We have organised the time among ourselves. I welcome the opportunity to open the Second Stage debate on the Gambling Control Bill 2018. As Members will be aware, this legislation was introduced to the House by my colleague, Deputy Rabbitte, on 21 February last. I commend Deputy Rabbitte and Deputy Jack Chambers, who have been instrumental in moving this legislation forward and bringing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee and commend them for intervening in the N.H.V. case. It was an important thing to do. I believe the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission should stick its nose into big cases like that in the future. This directive is to be transposed into Irish law by way of secondary legislation. I know that is common for most directives....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: It makes our task here very difficult because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Although it is legislation and it is law, we have no real involvement in it. We get to see it for the first time at the same time as Ms Logan. The capacity to retrospectively disapprove of secondary legislation has never really been engaged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does the commission believe that the interim measure that has been put in place by the Government provides effective access?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the examples of not having effective access mentioned by Ms Logan is the restrictions on the sectors in which asylum seekers may work. I ask her to elaborate on that. What is the commission's concern with regard to restrictions on sectors that may be applied in the statutory instrument?