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Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: We support amendment No. 16. No person should be forced into getting a public services card to make a transaction. We note, as Senator Higgins said, that the Data Protection Commission has ruled that an obligation for anybody other than the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection is illegal and cannot happen, but that this seems to have been ignored by the Department of...

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: ...and communities to move towards new technologies and cleaner energy. I hope the just transition commissioner will not be undermined in the same way that the way the Data Protection Commissioner was regarding the recent public services card scandal.

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Oct 2019)

Maire Devine: ...be asked to appear before it to discuss the matter, which call we reiterate today. This is a serious issue. The finding of the independently appointed Data Protection Commission is that the public services card is unlawful. Yet, the response of Government and the Department of Social Protection is to plough ahead regardless, which is incomprehensible. There are grave concerns about the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2019)

Maire Devine: ...every law with impunity keeps going. In Britain today the lawlessness has been shown with the Supreme Court ruling. We welcome that. I also believe we are not immune to it here in view of the public services card and the lawlessness it produced.The response from the Department, along the lines that it was stamping its feet, keeping the ball and pushing ahead regardless, was childish. I...