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- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: ...or the HSE. I will start with a couple of questions posed to Mr. Watt about the secret dossiers compiled by the Department on children with autism. I refer to the ruling last year by the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, on what was an unlawful practice of serious, "excessive and disproportionate" gathering of sensitive personal information about people, and who then were forced into...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: ...think there were internal submissions saying the Department was facing fines of up to €1 million. Regarding the fine of €22,500 for the compilation of very sensitive information and breaching data protection rules, Mr. Watt's own officials in the Department would say it got off lightly for that unlawful practice. Would he agree?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: Okay. Regarding any of the issues identified by the Data Protection Commissioner in terms of holding that data, have these practices fully ceased now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: The Department is fully compliant with the ruling from the Data Protection Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: In fairness, Mr. Watt, I am well aware of what the ruling was and what it was for. I am asking you, as the Secretary General, if you can give us assurances that the rulings laid down by the Data Protection Commissioner are now fully enforced and that the Department is fully in line with the ruling from the Data Protection Commissioner.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: Mr. Watt thinks the Department did. The Department of Health has been found by the Data Protection Commissioner to have been breaching data laws and he is not sure as to whether there has been an apology. Will he take the opportunity here now to apologise to those families who were directly impacted?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 38 - Health
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 18 - Health Service Executive Funding and Financial Reporting (1 Feb 2024) John Brady: I am sorry, Mr. Watt, the ruling was only made last year by the Data Protection Commissioner. A fine of €22,500 was issued and Mr. Watt's own officials say the Department got off lightly. I am asking him now if he will issue an apology to those families.