Results 181-200 of 366 for data protection speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (7 Oct 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...for rented properties from 2025; - The allocations for retrofit of social housing have also increased significantly with an allocation of €65 million for 2021. Income supports from the Department of Social Protection to help households with the costs of heating their homes have also increased. The Minister for Social Protection recently announced a budget of €292...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (30 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...years, has been that competitive energy markets result in greater choice for consumers and businesses, in terms of suppliers, products and prices and to support competition to drive down prices.  Data from approved price comparison sites shows that consumers can make significant savings by switching energy suppliers and this can mitigate the impact of price rises for consumers. ...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...characteristics and salmonid habitat.Established management programmes have been in place on these 7 State-owned waters for some years and the proposed plan will draw on developments in scientific data and research to create a comprehensive strategy for these waters. The Western Lakes are under particular threat, and the Management Plan, underpinned by best available scientific data, is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...responsibility, under S.I. 60 of 2005, to ensure security of electricity supply. The CRU has the duty to monitor electricity supplies and to take such measures as it considers necessary to protect security of supply. It is assisted in its statutory role by EirGrid, Irelands’ electricity transmission system operator, which is required to report to the CRU with regard to security of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (9 Sep 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme (AAMP), operated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has undergone significant investment and expansion in recent years, with the number of monitoring stations increasing from 30 in 2017 to 96 today. All monitoring stations collect air quality data for a range of pollutants in order to provide information to the public, and for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (27 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 87, 88, 103, 148 and 152 together. The Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy (2018) acknowledges the role of data centres as part of the digital and communications infrastructure for many sectors of our economy. The statement also notes that data centres pose considerable challenges to the future planning and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (27 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme, operated by the Environmental Protection Agency, has undergone significant investment and expansion in recent years, with the number of monitoring stations increasing from 30 in 2017 to 95 today. All monitoring stations collect air quality data for a range of pollutants in order to provide information to the public, and for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (7 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities has a statutory duty to monitor and take such measures as it considers necessary to protect security of supply of electricity. EirGrid has statutory responsibility to report to the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities on matters relating to security of supply of electricity. Details of power stations in the country are available on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Deputy is absolutely right about the importance of good data governance and the whole issue, particularly in the public sphere, of the use of data, privacy concerns and limiting sharing of information. That will be critical. The assistant secretary of my Department, Mr. O'Leary, might comment on this. He may have more specifics on the discussions with the Data Protection Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...and the airports, all of which have an interest in this issue. There have been very collaborative arrangements. For our first PCR system, it was Dublin Airport which stood up to help provide the data centre to back that up. Similarly with Aer Lingus and Ryanair, at critical moments in this crisis, Aer Lingus was flying in personal protective equipment, PPE, at a time we needed it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Clearly, we should obey the rules of the road. There is much ongoing work on the use of cameras. The issue is complex because of data protection, and the Data Protection Commissioner will have a key role. We have seen with the use of CCTV cameras for the likes of litter pollution that it is difficult to enforce the regulations. As the Data Protection Commissioner has rightly noted, we...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Surveys (29 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Information on data from the first phase of ObSERVE, including a fine-scale survey of the Irish East coast, can be found on the ObSERVE website www.gov.ie/en/publication/12374-observe-programme/. ObSERVE Phase 2 is a partnership between my Department, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.  Local authorities are not...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: .... However, it will not work, if we do not get the planning and the public consultation engagement right, and the environmental aspect to that planning done rightSenator Gavan, and perhaps others, mentioned data centres. Agriculture will have to change, so will transport, energy and industry. I do not see that it would be impossible for us to go to the data centre companies, which are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (16 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 45 and 46 together. I propose to answer Questions 45 and 46 together. The Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy (2018) acknowledges the role of data centres as part of the digital and communications infrastructure for many sectors of our economy.  The statement also notes that data centres...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Protection (1 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: I refer to my reply to Question 210 of 18th May 2021 in which I provided details on the number of data breaches experienced by my Department since 2018.All data breaches are reported to and assessed by the Department’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) in accordance with  Articles 33-34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and guidance issued by the Data Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (1 Jun 2021)

Eamon Ryan: The Environmental Protection Agency is responsible for monitoring ambient air quality in Ireland via the national Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Programme (AAMP). The AAMP has undergone significant investment and expansion in recent years, with the number of monitoring stations increasing from 30 in 2017 to 93 today. All monitoring stations collect air quality data for a range of pollutants...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (27 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: Geological Survey Ireland, a division of the Department, maintain the National Karst Databases and they are made available publically via our online web mapping site Data and maps (gsi.ie) The karst feature database contains  over 16,000 features, in 9 categories., including  turloughs, swallow holes, springs etc. Certain features are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (25 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...better able to afford to heat their homes to an adequate level. The scheme is available to owner-occupied homes built before 2006 where the household is in receipt of certain Department of Social Protection payments. The following table sets out the amount of grant funding paid out under the scheme for homes in Tipperary in 2020 and to date in 2021 when the scheme was fully paused in line...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ..., on the dark web or other such sites, that we do not further propagate it or share the information and that we do no further damage or increase any harm that would be done. If someone has the data it is impossible to stop the release of it completely. There is a range of different sites and one cannot completely stop it. However, we can minimise and protect to the best of our ability...

Recent Cyberattack and its Impact on the Health System: Statements (18 May 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...is a key component of the work of the NCSC, whereby it acts as a source of expert advice and guidance, but also as a clearing house for information. That is to say, it takes in threat intelligence data, trends and risks data from national, global and local sources, analyses them and makes sure those people who need those data get them, either to protect their systems or to assist them in...