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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The Minister in making the case in many ways for our Bill and I hope the Government will row in behind it to provide exactly that holistic experience and skill resources. Our Bill will not be legislated any time soon. Mr. Mulvey will not be in place until the new year.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We heard at the previous meeting that he was not yet in place.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: What Patricia King is arguing, and it is commendable and makes sense, is that this is an urgent issue in the midlands, that the local people are losing confidence, as are the workforce, and that the current mechanisms are not working. The joint industrial relations mechanisms may suffice for some of the particular industrial relations issues but, as the Minister says, it is much bigger and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Supplementary) (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will leave it at that and hope that is possible to use that in the interim, while we await the passage of our Bill. In the meantime, I am happy to support the Supplementary Estimate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I should declare that I worked with Mr. Tuohy when he was Secretary General when I became Minister. I hope he will not mind me reminding him that on my first day in office he handed me a box set of "Yes Minister" and recommended I watch it, which was very good advice. I feel like giving him a box set of "The Sopranos" or "Game of Thrones". I am not too sure which, because he is going into...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: It was lashing rain as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I think EirGrid should do that, and that it should go for it now. I worked in this area when I was not a Deputy and I know that Brussels is ready and waiting to do further funding, and it is our big project to add to a European climate response. We have to work on the UK Government on it as well because it is critical. We must work east-west as much as North-South. When does Mr. Tuohy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If we do not build that quickly, I believe they will end up building another interconnector to Scotland and we may see the break-up of the all-Ireland market, which would be a tragedy. My presumption is that EirGrid would own the interconnector and I presume it would own a half share with the French transmission operator of the interconnector with France. Given those circumstances, where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Tuohy is the chair designate and is no longer a civil servant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EirGrid: Chairman Designate (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I wish Mr. Tuohy the best of luck and commend the Government on making a very good appointment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: We had some good discussions at the recent international grand committee and at the think tank we had in the Westin Hotel. I recall at that event that experts from the Carnegie UK Trust explained the duty of care process, which was all about process design and the ability of states or regulators to set out in clear terms the design processes. It was not the case that we would just rely on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: At the international grand committee, the Data Protection Commissioner, Ms Helen Dixon, said that this process of starting the GDPR has been in existence for 18 months. Has the European regulator seen cases coming through using Article 25 and asking questions about that consent process and what consent is? Will that legal process drive this as well or is it just coming from the data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The DPC has an extensive workload, and a significant responsibility because, as Mr. Tuohy said earlier, 100,000 people are working in this sector and we want to have a good reputation. Does the DPC have all the necessary resources or does it need additional staffing resources from the State to manage the workload?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: A clear message from all this work, particularly that of the international grand committee, is that the DPC has a critical role. It was reckless and wrong of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to turn down the application for additional resources and that decision should be reversed. On voice listening devices, Dr. Cowan stated that we must take into consideration that if we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: An increasing number of tech companies and governments insist that attendees do not bring their phones into private meetings. Does Dr. Cowan recommend that members of an Oireachtas committee should leave their phones outside the room while the committee is in private session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I refer to public concern about this issue. Mr. Sunderland stated: "Voice assistants record user audio clips and convert those clips into a text form that acts as an input to online services such as search, weather, shopping" and so on. Many people have contacted members regarding verbal content recorded on their home voice device being converted into data that influences their search or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I have discussed this matter with my teenage children, who have given up and trade access for everything. Dr. Cowan may be examining the issue of whether there is an underlying flaw in the basic business model whereby we have given up our personal data in return for free access and, in turn, the companies have this incredible surveillance capability and advertising power. Is Dr. Cowan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Money is required for UCD as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not disagree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (Worker and Community Environmental Rights) Bill 2018: Discussion (26 Nov 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I thank our witnesses. I particularly appreciate the supportive comments from ICTU and others on this Bill. I think they get it in the sense that the scale of the challenge in meeting our climate change targets means that we are changing everything. It is system change at scale. We are changing our energy, transport, food and industrial systems for the better of the Irish public, the...