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- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this Bill and particularly on amendments Nos. 14 and 15. Amendment No. 14 reads:In page 28, after line 34, to insert the following:"Micro-targeting and profiling of children 30. It shall be an offence under this Act for any company or corporate body to process the personal data of a child as defined by section 29 for the purposes of direct marketing, profiling or...
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Níl mé críochnaithe fós, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Tá nóiméad eile fós agam.
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Of course. I have read the two amendments I am speaking about.
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking to the subject matter of the amendments.
- Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Not at all. People have come at this issue from different angles. I accept everyone's bona fides in this regard. As legislators, we have to make a choice when we are dealing with and voting on these two amendments. I appeal to the Minister to show understanding to the people who are here. There is a big difference between processing and profiling, or between profiling and processing. It...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Can I get an answer please? This must be stopped.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: This is not fake news; it is fact.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What is the Minister going to do about it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Will he defend the integrity of the voting process?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: These people never asked to be registered.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They are going blind.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister should stop digging when he is in a hole.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Under the eighth amendment, Article 40.3.3°, I wish to ask the Minister about the referendum. We heard confirmation by French students in Galway university that they had been added to the voting register for the referendum despite being ineligible and despite having made no request to be added to the register of electors. The Taoiseach made reference to Google and its integrity in the...
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 140. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of running the health service in each of the years 2011 to 2017 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21580/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (16 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the cost of operating his Department in each of the years 2011 to 2017, excluding the HSE budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21581/18]
- Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to express my sympathy to all of those Palestinian families who have suffered the loss of loved ones following the violence surrounding yesterday’s event. At a number of meetings of the Business Committee in recent weeks, Deputy Boyd Barrett was wanting to have this discussion and was predicting this to happen. How are we in such certainty? It is an anniversary, obviously,...
- Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is not in south Dublin anyway. Has Sinn Féin a monopoly on everything? I did not interrupt anybody.
- Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I was not saying anything to anyone. They have shot guns, planted bombs and thrown all kinds of cocktails at Israelis as they hid behind women and children. That is desperate. We want to save the women and children. We see it in conflicts throughout the world where the women and children are the targets and the victims of all kinds of genocide, crime, rape and everything else. In this...
- Order of Business (15 May 2018)
Mattie McGrath: On the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017, I want to ask what is going on over there. Has dysfunction also spread to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport? The Road Safety Authority has come under intense pressure from civil servants to make use of the public services card mandatory for all driving licence applications. They spent €2 million on the project before the...