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Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

Alex White: Section 66C(2) clarifies section 6A of the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2003, which is the main legislation dealing with data protection. This legislation relates to the processing of personal data which is likely to cause damage or distress. This is a fundamental principle in the Acts. Section 2 provides that this provision in the Data Protection Acts does not apply where the processing...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

Alex White: ...to a postcode related complaint. The complaints procedure is set out in the postcode contractor's code of practice. I emphasise that the postcode contractor has consulted with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in the drafting of the code of practice. I want to clarify and confirm to the House that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has made a number of...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, line 23, to delete “postcode contractor” and substitute “Data Protection Commissioner”.We believe the Data Protection Commissioner is the appropriate officer to carry out the work of upholding data protection. Capita, the postcode contractor, is not sufficiently distant from its customers and suppliers who are the most likely...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

David Cullinane: ...the Act of 1988 in relation to postcodes shall be liable in damages in tort.".As these are simple amendments, I do not propose to delay the Minister. The purpose of the section is to strip data subjects of their data protection rights with regard to the postcode and remove their ability to take action to vindicate these rights. This runs against the spirit of the Bill, which is supposed...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: ...something. The word "shall" is far more important and powerful. I ask the Minister to consider inserting the word "shall" in the Bill. This is the reason for some of the concerns about the Bill and the reason the Data Protection Commissioner asked for this primary legislation in regard to remedies and redress available to complainants. It must be done. This is the core issue behind...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

Alex White: ...as "may" and it is not framed as a mandatory obligation on the Minister, it remains the case that the regulations permitted under the section form part of the overall scheme of the Bill. The Data Protection Commissioner has been enormously helpful and supportive of this entire process, but the decision to bring forward this legislation was my decision. It was the Government's decision on...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

Alex White: ..., the requirements to be complied with by complainants, the remedies and redress available to complainants, and any other matter considered necessary or appropriate to secure the effective protection of complainants. Furthermore, pursuant to section 66D(1), the postcode contractor will set out a detailed complaints process in its code of practice, and that code is referred to in section...