{"id":1979,"date":"2016-06-15T08:49:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T07:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:31:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T14:31:21","slug":"sample-letter-to-refuse-permission-for-a-childs-data-to-be-transferred-into-pod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2016\/06\/15\/sample-letter-to-refuse-permission-for-a-childs-data-to-be-transferred-into-pod\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample letter to refuse permission for a child&#8217;s data to be transferred into POD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Education has issued <a href=\"http:\/\/education.ie\/en\/Circulars-and-Forms\/Active-Circulars\/cl0037_2016.pdf\">a new circular accepting<\/a> it cannot defund the education of children whose parents do not want their kid&#8217;s data to be in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/unanswered-legal-problems-with-the-governments-new-database-of-children\/\">POD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll only accept a written request as the basis of that refusal, however. So, here&#8217;s one you can use that meets the requirements (Now in English or Irish, thanks to an enterprising parent). Send or give it to your school.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Dear Principal,<br \/>\nI write further to the proposed transfer of data regarding my child (insert your child\u2019s name here) to the Department of Education as part of the Primary Online Database. I am not satisfied that the Department has acted legally regarding this scheme in the past, and the Data Protection Commissioner\u2019s office has confirmed the lack of legal basis for the transfer of data during the course of the rollout of this scheme.<br \/>\nAs I both object to the creation of the POD and have no confidence in the Department\u2019s capacity to process this data in accordance with data protection law, please note that, per Paragraph 2(a) of Department of Education Circular No. 37\/2016, I wish no transfer of data relating to my child to be made to the POD database.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your assistance.<br \/>\nYours faithfully<\/p>\n<p>(Your name)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And the same letter As Gaelge:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>GAEILGE (IRISH):<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A Phr\u00edomhoide, a chara,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">T\u00e1im ag scr\u00edobh chugat maidir le haistri\u00fa beartaithe sonra\u00ed a bhaineann le mo leanbh [AINM AN LINBH] chuig an Roinn Oideachais mar chuid den Bhunachar Sonra\u00ed ar L\u00edne do Bhunscoileanna. N\u00edlim s\u00e1sta gur ghn\u00edomhaigh an Roinn i gcomhr\u00e9ir leis an dl\u00ed i nd\u00e1il leis an sc\u00e9im sin roimhe seo, agus dhearbhaigh Oifig an Choimisin\u00e9ara Cosanta Sonra\u00ed nach bhfuil bun\u00fas dl\u00edthi\u00fail ann sonra\u00ed a aistri\u00fa le linn an sc\u00e9im seo a bheith \u00e1 cur i bhfeidhm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Toisc go bhfuilim i gcoinne an Bunachar Sonra\u00ed ar L\u00edne do Bhunscoileanna a chruth\u00fa, agus toisc nach bhfuil muin\u00edn ar bith agam as cumas na Roinne na sonra\u00ed sin a phr\u00f3ise\u00e1il de r\u00e9ir an dl\u00ed a bhaineann le cosaint sonra\u00ed, tabhair do d&#8217;aire, de r\u00e9ir Mh\u00edr 2(a) de Chiorcl\u00e1n Uimh. 37\/2016 \u00f3n Roinn Oideachais, nach dteasta\u00edonn uaim go nd\u00e9anfa\u00ed aon sonra\u00ed a bhaineann le mo leanbh a aistri\u00fa chuig an mBunachar Sonra\u00ed ar L\u00edne do Bhunscoileanna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Go raibh maith agat as do chabhair i nd\u00e1il leis an \u00e1bhar seo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Is mise le meas,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">[D\u2019AINM F\u00c9IN]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1465976986.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sample letter for parents to exempt their child from the Irish POD database.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[656],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-pod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}