Eoin Hayes TD

Your Privacy

Who I am and how you can contact me?

Your privacy is important to me, Eoin Hayes TD, and I process all personal information on a good faith basis. This Privacy Notice sets out what may
happen to any personal information you give me. 

I have an office in Leinster House, Dublin 2. My telephone number is
+353 (0)1 618 4083, and my email is eoin.hayes@oireachtas.ie.

Introduction

I’m setting out in this Privacy Notice the grounds on which I will deal with personal information belonging to you and to other people. Stricter rules apply to some types of personal information which may be described as special category data and criminal offence data (see notes below).

(a) Public interest and official authority.

You may ask me to make a representation on your behalf to a Department or State agency or ask a Minister a parliamentary question/raise a commencement matter in the Dáil where the subject matter includes personal information about you. If the representation or request you make to me is on behalf of a third person, you will need to show me that you have that third person’s consent. This does not apply if you show to me that the third person is, because of physical or mental incapacity, or because (s)he is too young, incapable of giving consent.

Making representations, or asking a parliamentary question/raising a commencement matter means that personal information (including, sometimes, special category data or criminal offence data) will have to be shared with other people. For example, if I make a representation to a State body or a Department, a limited number of people there will have to consider and deal with the information to give me an answer. If I ask a parliamentary question/raise a commencement matter, the information is transmitted to the relevant Department through civil servants in the Houses of the Oireachtas Service (parliamentary administration). 

I also deal with personal information in the course of committee or other parliamentary business. This might, for example, involve dealing with personal information where someone sends me what they claim is a whistleblower’s disclosure.

(b) Maintaining contact.

 It may not always be clear when an existing query requires one of us to contact the other again, and I may in due course be able to help you with some matter other than the one you initially got in touch about. The law also allows me to hold on to your contact details so I can send you circulars or newsletters, or tell you about my policies or electoral activities. This is because supporting the democratic process is in the public interest. Therefore, I will retain your contact details such as landline phone number, mobile phone number, and email address. I have your name and home address from the electoral register which is sent to me under the Electoral Act.

(c) Consent.

You are allowed to withdraw your consent at any time. This won’t affect how I have already dealt with the personal information, but I won’t be able to deal with the personal information, outside of that allowed by the Electoral Act, any more.

(d) Explicit Consent.

I will require you to explicitly consent to any recording of criminal offense data about you or any other person. I will not sign you up to any electronic mailing lists (email, text, or phone call) without your explicit consents. You may revoke your explicit consents at any time.

Who Will Get Your Personal Information?

This depends on why I am dealing with it. No-one will get it voluntarily who does not need to receive it for the purpose for which it is being dealt with.

Retention

I will keep personal information only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice or as required by law.

Further Dealing With Personal Information

It would be very exceptional for me to deal with personal information for a purpose other than the purpose for which I received it. The need to do so might arise because of a legal obligation or in the public interest.

Your Rights About Your Personal Information

You may ask me for a copy of your personal information. You may ask me to supplement or correct your personal information if it is incomplete or incorrect (including out of date). You may be able to ask me to delete personal information, especially if you have withdrawn consent to my dealing with it or I no longer need it, or not to deal with it for the time being, for example, if you think it is incorrect. You may object at any stage to my holding on to your contact details (other than your name and address on the electoral register) and in nearly every conceivable circumstance I will respect your wishes about this.

Deletion

I recognise absolutely your right to be forgotten and all information held about you, with the exception of information granted to me under the Electoral Act, to be deleted at your request at any time. I will not, without your express consent, specific to the particular personal information and the relevant purpose, keep it or otherwise deal with it (than to delete it) once I am no longer a member of either House of the Oireachtas and there is no prospect of my being re-elected within a short interval after that.

Third Parties

It is assumed that if you contact any member of the Social Democrats, you have furthermore consented to the party’s privacy policy. You also consent to my or my offices relying on your information to relevant public bodies as part of queries or representations on your behalf. It is assumed that you consent to your data being held in any format with any third party, for example a cloud-based service, as to ensure the proper functioning of my office.

Redress

If you are not content with how I am dealing with your personal information, you may bring your dissatisfaction to the attention of the Data Protection Commission.

Note 1: Special Category Data

Special category data means personal information about a person’s: 

  • race; 
  • ethnic background; 
  • political opinions; 
  • religion; 
  • philosophical beliefs; 
  • membership of a trade union; 
  • genes (biological inheritance); 
  • biometric data (such as fingerprints on a passport); 
  • health; 
  • sex life; 
  • sexual orientation; 
  • alleged commission of criminal offences; 
  • criminal convictions; 
  • being subject to security measures related to criminal offences or convictions. 

Note 2: Criminal Offence Data

Criminal Offence Data (that is, personal information governed by GDPR,

Article 10) means personal information about a person’s: 

  • alleged commission of criminal offences; 
  • criminal convictions; 
  • being subject to security measures related to criminal offences or convictions.