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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: This is about the use of the electoral register and the Sinn Féin privacy notice as published in the public domain states categorically that the Abú system is the electoral register and marked register, yet the Deputy cannot account for the expenditure on IT and computers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: All right. On the issue of the legitimate interest, Sinn Féin states it uses the data "in our legitimate interest of pursuing our political activities", those of Sinn Féin, that is, and that it does not disclose the data to third parties "other than those who provide a service to us which requires access to our database". Does that include third parties who operate data analytics?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: That goes beyond the obligations under data protection and the principles of GDPR, namely, data minimisation and having restricted access. It goes way beyond that when one is disclosing the sort of information around hard, soft or strong opposition and when a person voted. There is clearly potential in the Abú system for analytics and statistics. There are clear options in it to go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: The section referring to the disclosure of information suggests that includes disclosure to database developers. Does the Abú system employ blockchain technology?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is the Deputy saying that absolutely and categorically?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Coming back to the manual and bearing in mind that the Deputy is one of the trainers-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Excuse me, Deputy, you have had your time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Deputy Gould has had his time. It is clear there is a cover-up going on if he needs to talk over me in the same way that Mr. Carroll, the Fine Gael general secretary, was not allowed to answer his question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: No, I had not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: The manual states: "“You can use the search function in the Abú system to find the person you have engaged with online, tag them as a social media engager and follow up with a canvass on their doorstep". That implies that more than the electoral register is being stored on the Abú system as it has that facility and that is stated in black and white in the manual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Actually, the privacy notice is silent on consent and it relies on legitimate interest. Sinn Féin is failing in the transparency obligations in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: The voter actions of 3.5 million people have been recorded unlawfully.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am in Leinster House. I thank the Minister for his comprehensive submission to the committee. I wish to be clear about a couple of things. As recently as last night, there was reference to Tuam on the RTÉ series about former State Pathologist, Dr. Marie Cassidy. She discussed the mammoth task it will be to identify the remains in Tuam. I am ever mindful, as we talk here about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: That is great; I thank the Minister very much. I do not know if I have time for another question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: There are a number of representative groups of the various families and others at Tuam. Is it the Minister's proposal to get into discussions at other sites? I am coming back to the exercise of discretion as to what is needed at other sites and what intervention by the commission would happen at other sites. Does the Minister propose doing that in collaboration with survivor groups or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister very much. He has more than demonstrated that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Towards the end of my first slot, we started to talk about the agency and the logistics of that. I ask the Minister to give more detail on how the agency itself will work inside a human rights framework.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I think of the words in the preamble to the Constitution about cherishing all of the children. In their time, these children clearly were not cherished and neither were their mothers but we have an opportunity, in what we do now, to restore their dignity, to respect them and to cherish their value to us as a State. I appreciate the Minister's words and thoughts on that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I, too, want to address the cyberattack and the consequences of it. We need a debate on the security of our State. It is devastating for those who are left wondering when their appointments will be held over the coming weeks. At the same time, I commend the work done in the past few days. Our data was clearly kept in silos. Our data is allegedly kept in silos in Clonshaugh and, as a...

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I move: That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges that: - Ireland recognises the contribution young people make to our society, including working and volunteering in their communities and through their advocacy on national and global issues; - the Thirty-first Amendment of the Constitution enshrined the rights of the child in Irish law; - the establishment of the Department of Children,...