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Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: ...a postcode-related complaint. The complaints procedure is set out in the postcode contractor's code of practice and, as I indicated earlier, the postcode contractor has consulted the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in the drafting of the code of practice, and that office has made a number of observations and recommendations, which the postcode contractor is happy to accept....

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: As we are discussing amendments Nos. 1 and 10 together, I will address both amendments. Section 66C(2) clarifies that section 6A of the Data Protection Act 1988, in other words, the principal Act, which relates to the processing of personal data that is likely to cause damage or distress, which is the issue Deputy Colreavy raises, does not apply where the processing is necessary to undertake...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: There are risks in having a postcode contractor perform some of the duties that a data protection commissioner would perform under data protection legislation. This sets a dangerous precedent, which could have unintended consequences. It is good that the Minister has introduced this Bill as without it, data protection would not be possible. My amendments, Nos. 1 and 10, are required to...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: I repeat the point that I must respectfully disagree with Deputy Colreavy's suggestion that the complaints procedure here would be, to use his phrase, replicating the role of the Data Protection Commissioner. That is not true. It is simply not the case. The Data Protection Commissioner's powers under the principal Act remain and they are considerable. Absolutely nothing is being taken...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: ...what the Minister is saying but corporate lawyers will have great fun with this one. The precedent that is being established in setting up contractors who are replicating the role of the Data Protection Commissioner is a dangerous one. The Minister said this has never been a problem up to now but in regard to the dissemination of information the facility to target specific addresses is...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Tom Hayes: ...) Bill 2015, the purpose of which is to ensure the public interest is satisfied with regard to the undertaking of legitimate postcode activities in order that the processing of any personal data in postcode-enabled databases is in compliance with the Data Protection Acts. I welcome the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Alex White, and his officials to the...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: .... 1.In page 7, to delete lines 19 to 21 and substitute the following:"(2) A person who breaches the Act of 1988 in relation to postcodes shall be liable in damages in tort.". I have concerns when data protection measures are inserted in primary legislation, as is the case with this Bill, because the legislation will depend on close linkages with the principal Data Protection Act. I have...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Alex White: ...related matters. Section 1 states: "In this Act [the] "Principal Act" means the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011." That is what we are amending here but all of the existing data protection remains in place. The Act of 1988 is referred to here as meaning the Data Protection Act 1988 and so on. It cannot be said that because we are introducing new legislation it in...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 10:In page 8, line 24, to delete "its terms."." and substitute the following:"its terms.66F. (1) The use of the postcode to breach the data protection rights of a data subject is an offence. (2) A person who commits an offence under this Part is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding €1,000,000, or in the case of a body corporate, whichever is the...

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: There is no section in the legislation that points out the right of a person to go to the Data Protection Commissioner. It is not stated in the Bill.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 2:In page 7, line 23, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner". We have more or less covered the debate on this issue and the Minister probably understands my concern in this respect. I will be pressing a vote on the issue.

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 3:In page 7, line 28, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 4:In page 7, line 32, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 5:In page 7, line 35, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 6:In page 7, line 36, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 7:In page 7, line 38, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, line 1, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2015)

Michael Colreavy: I move amendment No. 9:In page 8, line 3, to delete "postcode contractor" and substitute "Data Protection Commissioner".