Results 1-20 of 100 for data protection speaker:Patrick O'Donovan

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Senator's amendment proposes the deletion of section 5(2) and (3) of the Bill, which relate to section 38 of the Data Protection Act 2018. This section of the Data Protection Act provides that a Minister may make regulations for the processing of data for a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority. Data sharing is included in the definition of...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I think there might be some confusion because the Bill currently requires public bodies to enter into formal data-sharing agreements to share data that set out, among other things, that the data will be shared, the purposes for which it is shared, as outlined in the Bill, the processing that will be carried out in the data, and how the data will be kept. The Bill also requires that the...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We had a lengthy debate on Committee Stage on the application of this Bill to the sharing of special categories of personal data as defined under Article 9 of the general data protection regulation, GDPR. While it has always been the intention that the legislation would not provide a general legal basis for the sharing of specific special category data, I acknowledge that the text of the...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: The kick-off for the agreements is identified in section 55(1)(c, which states: "a statement from the data protection officer of each of the proposed parties to the effect that the data protection officer concerned has reviewed the proposed agreement, and is satisfied that compliance by the proposed parties with the terms of the proposed agreement would not result in a contravention of data...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Programme (9 Nov 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: The draft general scheme of the Data Sharing and Governance Bill was approved by the Government and published in August 2015. The purpose of the Bill is to promote and encourage data sharing between public bodies by providing a statutory framework for data sharing for legitimate and clearly specified purposes that are compliant with data protection law and to improve the protection of...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (6 Oct 2011)

Patrick O'Donovan: Question 105: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 377 of 20 September 2011, if she has invoked section 8 of the Data Protection Act 1988 as amended by the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003 as a means to combat social welfare fraud. [28167/11]

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...Act 2005 and its relationship to this Bill. In the amendment tabled in respect of section 6, the Senator has proposed that the public services card, or the underlying public service identity data associated with the card, cannot be used as the sole basis by which a person may confirm his or her identity to access a service. Similarly, she proposes to amend section 12 to provide that...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I accepted the amendment in the Seanad that the data protection officers and public bodies party to a data sharing agreement would certify that the agreement is in accordance with the principle of data protection as articulated in Article 5 of the GDPR. This is a technical amendment to tidy up the wording and to make specific reference to Article 5.1 of the GDPR, where the data protection...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the House for the opportunity to move this Bill. I am pleased to be here to introduce the Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 in Seanad Éireann. This Bill proposes a series of reforms to the way government shares data in order to improve public services as well as measures to improve the safe handling of that data by bringing consistency and improved safeguards to the way it...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...with by the Members of the Seanad and I look forward to further constructive debate in this House. Members may be aware of the number of amendments that were tabled and accepted in the Seanad. The Data Sharing and Governance Bill proposes a series of reforms to the way the Government shares data to improve public services for the benefit of citizens and businesses, as well as measures...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Feb 2019)

Patrick O'Donovan: Group 4 consists of amendments Nos. 8, 9, 11 and 22. Amendment No. 8 concerns the issue of commercial activity. It provides that public bodies may not share data where the body receiving the data is involved in commercial activity where the use of that data could give the body concerned a commercial advantage over other operators in the same market. When we debated this in the Seanad,...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: I do not want to labour the point, but, as we go through the Bill, particularly the reason the data governance board and the concept of proportionality are taken as a given, in the sense that we must have regard to existing legislation and the GDPR, that we have put in place a data governance board to protect the interests of citizens and public bodies, that we have the backstop of the Data...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...we are being complacent, it is important to make a few points. The Senator spoke of the tests for necessity and proportionality. These are absolutely necessary and they are happening currently. Data is being shared at the moment, which is necessary and the agreements are necessary. They need, however, to have a legal basis, and hence this Bill. Consider what is included in the Bill to...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Jun 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: We need to go back to when the Bill went through pre-legislative scrutiny and the Data Protection Commissioner was given sight of it. It is important to point out that the observations of the Data Protection Commissioner and those involved in pre-legislative scrutiny have been incorporated in the Bill. On whether we have the luxury of waiting, I draw attention to a point I made on Second...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: National Shared Services Office Bill 2016: Committee Stage (22 Jun 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 19:In page 22, after line 13, to insert the following:“Sharing of data 35. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 or any other enactment, the data controller of Oifig an Ard-Chláraitheora (the first-named person) shall provide to the data controller of the Office such of the following certificates capable of being...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...enshrined in the GDPR process. There is also a fairly protracted public consultation process that goes on well in advance of the agreements being set out. In addition, the public can avail of the data protection complaints process. One of the concerns - I have gone through this in detail with the officials in my Department and I know it would not be an intended consequence - relates to...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I move amendment No. 8:In page 20, to delete lines 34 and 35. This has the effect of removing section 21(6). Section 21 requires one of the parties to a data sharing agreement to be designated as the lead agency responsible for carrying out the functions specified in the section and elsewhere in the Bill relating to data sharing agreements. It sets out a number of functions that the lead...

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

Patrick O'Donovan: I am not the Minister responsible for data protection. This is about data sharing.

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...taken time to reflect on some of the issues raised during last week’s Committee Stage debate and on Second Stage. On foot of the discussion about the application of the Bill to special category data, I intend to propose an amendment to Part 2 that will make it explicit that the Bill does not permit sharing of special category data, except for Parts 5 and 8. There may be...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Patrick O'Donovan: Amendment No. 32 in the name of Senator Higgins is very similar to amendment No. 29, which arises out of Committee Stage proceedings. Amendment No. 29 provides that, as part of the data-sharing agreement, public bodies will formally undertake to share data in accordance with the principles of data protection in the GDPR. This was agreed on Committee Stage and I indicated that I would...