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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department is fully compliant with GDPR EU requirements, the EU network and Information Security Directive and standards with respect to her Department’s IT infrastructure including Article 29 of GDPR which requires that data processors access only the data they need for their task; if ISO 27001 Annex 9...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any state or semi state bodies which report to her Department are fully compliant with GDPR EU requirements and the EU network and Information Security Directive and standards with respect to their IT infrastructure including article 29 of GDPR which requires that data processors access only the data they need for their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 379. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is fully compliant with GDPR EU requirements and the EU network and Information Security Directive and standards with respect to his Department's IT infrastructure including Article 29 of GDPR which requires that data processors access only the data they need for their task; if ISO 27001 Annex 9 standards on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 380. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any state or semi state bodies which report to his Department are fully compliant with GDPR EU requirements and the EU network and Information Security Directive and standards with respect to their IT infrastructure including article 29 of GDPR which requires that data processors access only the data they need for their task; if...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 398. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department is fully compliant with GDPR EU requirements, the EU network and Information Security Directive and standards with respect to her Department’s IT infrastructure including Article 29 of GDPR which requires that data processors access only the data they need for their task; if ISO 27001 Annex 9 standards on...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Data Protection (20 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 399. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if any state or semi state bodies which report to her Department are fully compliant with GDPR EU requirements and the EU network and Information Security Directive and standards with respect to their IT infrastructure including article 29 of GDPR which requires that data processors access only the data they need for their task; if...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome this debate and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. Anytime I have raised issues in relation to the care of older people, she has always listened and she is very attentive to the excellent debate we are having this afternoon. I have every confidence, having discussed it with her in this House and in private, that statutory home care packages for all families who want to receive...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (19 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend the opening hours of the park and visitors centre at Oldbridge, County Meath which is in the possession of the OPW; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26856/21]

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am here as a Deputy from County Louth, a Border county. Having lived there all my life, I know how difficult, sad and tragic the loss of any life is on our island. My county has suffered greatly in many ways. I am also Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Our members have agreed unanimously that the families of the victims of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Economic Policy (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 174. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will create a mechanism whereby local chambers of commerce and the business community can engage directly and support the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor initiative in an official capacity, in particular, that the work and data already completed in respect of the M1 corridor project and the M1 payments corridor and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Economic Policy (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 175. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding the development of Drogheda, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider lifting the road tolls on the M1 Drogheda toll or at the very least for heavy goods vehicles to keep them out of the town centre and on the motorway and also to keep these vehicles off the N2 to avoid small villages such as Slane, County Meath, in view of Brexit and optimising North-South trade; the estimated cost...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders that were initiated in each local authority in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; the number that were completed; the number of units that were brought back into use; the average cost of purchase and renovation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: The first session of the meeting will be in private or in committee, as it is called at a council meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Ms Aingeal O’Donoghue, assistant secretary, and Mr. Eoghan Duffy, principal officer, from the shared island unit in the Department of the Taoiseach. The evidence of witnesses physically present or of those who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected pursuant to both the Constitution and statute by absolute privilege....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Duffy will contribute in the question and answer session but does not wish to speak now. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is fine. Before going to members, I have a quick question on the Narrow Water Bridge. If someone wanted to find out the position with regard to the proposal on the Narrow Water Bridge or the A5, how would he or she do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is a roadmap of knowledge, so to speak. I live in County Louth and obviously the Narrow Water Bridge is very important to me and my constituents. If I submit a parliamentary question on it to the Taoiseach's Department, I will get an answer. Is that the appropriate approach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is good-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (Resumed) (18 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is good. The unit is doing a fantastic job. It is very active and its reach is very broad and inclusive. It is important to ensure Oireachtas Members have information on how to follow the excellent work being done by the unit.