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Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator can sit there spouting his ideology-----

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: -----while real people live in hubs.

Seanad: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (15 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: This is about the amendment. The fact of the matter is that nobody is curtailing the rights of councillors except where those councillors are putting their party before a roof over families’ heads. It is an appalling abuse and misrepresentation and I am disappointed in the Leas Cathaoirleach.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Mr. Sunderland for his opening statement. More importantly, I thank him for his submission. I am keen to contextualise this discussion of the balancing of rights. My mother gave birth to me in the Coombe Women's Hospital. From the moment I was born, or within a feasible administrative period, I had access to my birth certificate, which stated who my mother and father were. The...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: On the issue of the lawful basis of processing, a lawful basis is provided for by article 7(1)(e) and Recital 45 if we engage that purposeful legislative basis in the context of public interest. Does the creation of this legislation provide that lawful basis?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am happy to let Deputy Cairns proceed on the basis that it flows from what she has been asking.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: My questions are less complex. When I envisaged the coming into force of the GDPR, it was in the context of Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, the modalities and storage of data now and the fact that our data can be transported, used and commodified so easily. I must confess I never considered it in the context of who the person fundamentally is. If one was arguing for Ireland or the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have come across difficulties for next of kin in getting information as to how people are in hospitals. People have a perception that next-of-kin status has a standing but it does not have any legal standing and there is no right to information attaching to it. Yet, we are prescribing in legislation a right to medical information for all the right reasons. It is perfectly reasonable that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Ms Gibney for her presentation. It is different hearing it read by its writer versus reading it myself, so it was good to hear her comments. I wish to get straight to the nub of the issue. It is great that information is being made available to adoptees, which is as it should be, but there is a competing right that the Government is trying to, and the State needs to, vindicate....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will come back in if there is time.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is there? Right. My follow-up question was about counselling and how there should be counselling, while also being aware that people perhaps cannot go to a counsellor in their town. I tend to think of things in Dublin because I am from Dublin and have always lived there but there are challenges when you are out in a rural community, that I know have already had to be overcome in the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes, and they need to be supported by enhanced powers to compel the information when it is in the hands of a third party.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Coming back to the relevant persons, in her opening statement Ms Gibney proposed the possibility that the relevant person in this instance may be deceased, and consequently it is reasonable that relatives become the relevant persons. This seems to set up a hierarchy of access whereby if the relevant person should get the information and in the event that the relevant person is deceased, then...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I wish to flesh this out. I would be of the view that it needs to be a bit wider and that it is too restrictive as it stands. Head 40 suspends GDPR rights for the purposes of birth information. As I read this, however, GDPR rights are not just rights of access, they are also rights of restriction and it is necessary that the right to restrict the disclosure of data is suspended in order...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am hearing the professor say that it is lacking in precision-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Professor Murphy.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: -----as opposed to its objective which is disclosure, and unfettered disclosure I would have thought.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I congratulate Deputy Bacik. I wish to raise awareness of homeowners who are awaiting the outcome of the working group to assist some 90,000 apartment owners who are living in Celtic tiger legacy apartments with substandard fire safety provisions. In some instances, there are no fire retardant measures at all. I am in constant contact with homeowners who have been obliged to pay exorbitant...