Results 81-100 of 123 for data protection speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will hold it over for next week. Also held over from last week's meetings is No. 2231B from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, dated 7 June, and providing an update to an inquiry the committee made in regard to a protected disclosure regarding St. Munchin's community centre, Limerick. We had received anonymous correspondence...

Appointment of Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Motions (5 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...a point of view during a campaign. We have a much regulated financial system for donations to and the expenditure of political parties and candidates. It was intended that the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner would merge with the Information Commissioner. However, this was deferred some time ago due to external factors. Will the Minister inform us if it is still off the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...sector, the Economic and Social Research Institute, clear audit opinion; and Waterford Institute of Technology, 2017 accounts, clear audit opinion. There is a reference to its accumulated deficit. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...and it is nothing to do with the Secretary General. It is a historical issue. I will put my question by way of giving examples. If we ask the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection for the number of people in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, it can provide that information every week. If we ask the HSE for the number of medical cards it has issued, it can provide an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...correspondence requesting the committee to make an inquiry with the HSE regarding charges for medical care. The correspondence has not been circulated because there are some libel and general data protection regulation, GDPR, concerns. There is also considerable personal information. At Deputy Fitzmaurice's request, I met him and the person who made the complaints before the summer...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Seán Fleming: ..., which led to my request for a meeting with the delegates. One of those issues concerned the large social media companies registered in Ireland within an EU context, and the role of the Irish Data Protection Commission, not just in an Irish and European context but also in a worldwide context. It is a relatively small office which has been getting larger as the years go by. As such, my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Discussion (16 Dec 2021)

Seán Fleming: ...competition in the Irish insurance market. The reforms are having a positive effect. Motor insurance premiums dropped by 8% this year so far. Early indications by the Personal Injuries Assessment Board’s data showed an average reduction of 40% in personal injury awards covered by the new injury guidelines five months after their introduction. The Government recognises the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...Agreed. The next item on our agenda is statements of accounts received since our last meeting. It is a short list. There is only one item on it today - the 2016 accounts of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner which state there was a turnover of €4.7 million. There was a clear audit opinion. We will note the accounts. They are available in the Oireachtas Library if...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (16 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...to humanitarian need, ranking among the top twenty humanitarian donors. In 2022 we provided a record €297.8 million in humanitarian assistance. This year, Ireland has supported humanitarian assistance and protection in countries and regions such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, the Sahel and...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Committee Stage (14 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...amendment No. 27: In page 30, line 9, after "year." to insert the following:"The details of such report shall be published in such manner as would not in any way identify a person who has made a protected disclosure.".This Schedule provides for the appointment by the Taoiseach of a disclosures recipient for the categories we discussed earlier. This amendment relates to the final...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2018)

Seán Fleming: ...it. It is being considered and we will have it back next week. The next item of correspondence is No. 1065C. It is dated 5 February 2018, was received from an individual and relates to a data breach at KBC Bank. It is not within the remit of the committee to look at it. I propose, therefore, that, in order to be helpful, we provide the individual with details of the Office of the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)

Seán Fleming: ...that can initiate prosecutions in their own right. We all thought that only the Director of Public Prosecutions and one or two other agencies could do this. The Health and Safety Authority, the Consumer Protection Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, the Data Protection Commissioner, the Central Bank, Road Safety Authority and the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2010 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
National Development Finance Agency Financial Statements 2011 (13 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: ....... could share appropriate information and thus provide for an effective utilisation of the provisions .... designed to secure compliance with employment law". He went on to say that "data protection" issues mean that NERA cannot even notify the "contracting authorities". I know the Department intends to introduce a workplace relations Bill shortly. That will be of assistance in this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...of certain staff employed by Coillte. The reply says that the Department is not involved in this case and suggests that we direct our enquiry to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. I propose that we write to that Department, as suggested and also request information directly form Coillte. No. 920C, correspondence dated 16 November 2017 from an individual in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...an update from the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation in recent days, which we await. We will note that correspondence. No. 721, dated 25 July, is from an investigations officer in the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner notifying the clerk that she is investigating a complaint submitted by an individual who had previously corresponded with the Committee of Public Accounts and...

Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...State supports from insurance claim settlements; support the Central Bank's new regulations to ban price walking; provide clarity on certain provisions of the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019; and protect existing Irish policyholders following the UK's departure from the EU by supporting the Central Bank's technical changes to the temporary run-off regime, TRR, for UK and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Bill. I will concentrate on the social protection area and will deal with the pensions issue subsequently. There are a number of changes in the pensions area and many people will be concerned about them. They do not appear to affect people immediately but they will further down the road. They are real and substantial changes which must be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Dec 2020)

Seán Fleming: ...for the same period by having CCTV available. I am not giving that commitment but I am saying that logic suggests that it should be looked at. It is an issue that we will have to take up with the Data Protection Commissioner, the Department of Justice and many people in wider society. It is not fair that one side of litigation can be disadvantaged by not having access to information...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Postal Services (28 Sep 2021)

Seán Fleming: ...administration and is responsible for managing the importation and exportation of goods in accordance with EU customs rules and relevant national legislation. Customs controls are necessary to protect public health and to ensure food safety and product standards, and to protect people from fraud or from unfair international competition, thus preserving jobs for European workers, including...