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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (30 May 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...Affairs and Social Protection if she or officials from her Department discussed the issue of the publication of the full final report of the investigation by the Data Protection Commission into the public services card with the commission since the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on 3 April 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22995/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (30 May 2019)

Mick Wallace: 33. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consent to the publication of the full final report of the investigation by the Data Protection Commission into the public services card following the comments by the Deputy Commissioner at the Oirechtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on 3 April 2019 that the DPC has no objection to the publication and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission (3 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: According to page 45 of the annual report, which provides an update on the public services card investigation, a draft report of the investigation containing "13 provisional findings" was issued to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for comment in August 2018. I am curious about the use of the word "provisional" and I ask our guests to elaborate on it. In what way...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (13 Mar 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...further to Parliamentary Question No. 616 of 26 February 2019, if the correspondence that was sent to those persons selected to take part in the survey to assess customer satisfaction regarding the public services card to invite them to take part in the survey was sent to those selected by her Department or by the survey company (details supplied); if the correspondence was sent by the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (26 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 19 February 2019, the survey provider that carried out the recent customer survey on the public services card to which she refers; when the survey was carried out; the survey method used; the sample size; the response rate; if only public services card holders were surveyed; the...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: .... The fundamental fact remains that, according to Article 4 of GDPR, consent when required for data processing must be freely given and cannot be coerced. There may well be a legal basis for the public services card and the data chain that goes with it in the Social Welfare Consolidation Act, but there is no legal basis for withholding public services from a person who does not agree to...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: From the Seanad (20 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We really hope that Fianna Fáil Deputies will not do a U-turn on this and that they do not hide behind this wonderful contraption called confidence and supply. The public services card project is a ticking time bomb for the Government as far as we are concerned. If by chance Fianna Fáil Deputies were to do a U-turn on it, it might not look great on their record when the trouble...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 51. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the final report on the Data Protection Commissioner's investigation into the public services card will be published; if a full or summary report will be published; the reason a full report would not be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8093/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...form or another, yet there is no clear record of reports or enforcement actions that is easily accessible. If the commission will not publish the full and final report on the investigation into the public services card, will the Minister commit to doing so, irrespective of the outcome of the investigation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ..., the Minister will publish it. Transparency certainly helps. It is amazing that the Department's response to the Data Protection Commissioner's inquiry, at this late stage in the history of the public services card's roll-out, requires such a protracted, extended defence. This is the largest data-sharing project in the history of the State and I think it has cost approximately...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: From our point of view, one of the main problems with the public services card is that the aim of it and the SAFE 2 registration process is not limited to verification. As I said, it is also to coerce consent to data-sharing. Perhaps the Minister is now denying it, but section 262(6) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act states:(a) Where a specified body has a transaction with a person,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Payments (19 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 56. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is withholding payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to same declines to register for a public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8092/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Data (19 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...Social Protection if her Department has responded to the draft report and request of the Data Protection Commission for further information on the processing of personal data in connection with the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53441/18]

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...sharing in order to avoid arrest or prosecution and suggesting otherwise is nonsense. Amendments Nos. 6 and 9 aim to address the issue of processing for reasons other than that for which data are collected. Public services card registration is only one of the points of data collection addressed by the Bill. It clearly applies to many other instances of data collection not addressed by...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...first or second mentioned public body is providing or proposes to provide a service to that person, without prejudice to a person’s right to verify their identity other than by the presentation of a public services card or access to that person’s public service identity;".

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...also said that it is also up to each individual service provider to seek legislation, if required, to put in place the mechanism it wishes to use. If that is the case then our amendments on the public services card will provide clarity only. The Department of Employment and Social Protection, for example, might be made aware that what it is doing in relation to the public services...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State said on Committee Stage that he could not accept our amendments. Obviously, he is trying to reverse the amendments we secured at the time relating to the public services card and the public service identity data set. The Minister of State said the measures would be in direct conflict with existing legislation. He referred to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act. This...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 4:In page 10, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following:“(6) A specified body may not make presentation of a public services card or access to a person’s public service identity the exclusive basis by which a person may verify their identity in order to conduct a transaction or access a service.”. I want to say a few words on the amendment, so...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...bodies. Clearly most people will see it as easier, handier and vastly more efficient to just have to provide their data once but when a person's data is first collected, which at that moment is via registration for a public services card, but a person must also then be able to opt out of further processing without their consent. To make access to the State's services dependent on consent...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...that suggests a system which might be subject to governance. The definition of data sharing at the moment is broad to the extent that it will inevitably lead to further functional creep, as we have seen with the public services card and its expansion. This is linked with amendment No. 6, is that correct?