Results 21-40 of 225 for data protection speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The nutrient values for poultry manure, as stated in Tables 7 and 8 of the Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Waters (GAP) Regulations (S.I. No. 113 of 2022, as amended), cover litter/manure from egg producing birds (known as layers) and meat producing birds (known as broilers). The tables represent manures of varying dry matters and litter types. Both of these parameters have...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...C13 is new for this year and provides funding for Rialálaí Agraibhia, the new agrifood regulator, which was established as an independent State agency last December with the key objective of promoting fairness and transparency throughout the agrifood supply chain. We all worked hard to deliver the regulator to ensure it would protect our agrifood suppliers, in particular, our...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware from PQ 57204/23, the formalisation of data sharing processes was introduced by the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 and supplemented by the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019, with the commencement of sections 6(2) and (3) of that Act coming into operation on 16th December 2022. My Department and the Offices under its aegis share both aggregated and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy will be aware, the formalisation of processing of personal data was significantly strengthened by the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 and was more recently supplemented by the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019, with the commencement of sections 6(2) and (3) of that Act coming into operation on 16th December 2022. Schedules of personal and or person-specific data that were...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (17 Jan 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department does not hold the data being sought by the Deputy in respect of lost or recovered fishing pots. However, I would like to reassure the Deputy that my Department assists in the collaborative effort to help in keeping our oceans clean and healthy and launched the Clean Oceans Initiative in January 2019. The Clean Oceans Initiative is managed by Bord Iascaigh Mhara to help protect...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...and the National Beef Welfare Scheme (NBWS) in 2023. These schemes, which have 17,610 and 16,424 participants respectively, ensured that I was able to provide a payment of €200 per suckler cow to protect beef farmer incomes this year. I was delighted to continue this funding into 2024 with over €100m directly targeted at livestock farmers. The precursor schemes operational...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Safety (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...analysis. The main official agencies under contract to the FSAI are the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Health Service Executive, the Local Authorities and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority. The contracts are published on the Authority’s website and their performance is subject to regular checks and audits. The collective work of the FSAI and the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (14 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Table 1 shows the volume of all landings into Irish ports in the 10 years from 2013 to 2022. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is responsible for the collection of landings data and the data in Table 1 was taken from the Annual Statistics section of the SFPA website. This table indicates that in the 10 years between 2013 and 2022, 2020 was the year with the greatest volume of fish...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...framework for forestry in Ireland. The Forestry Act 2014 defines deforestation as the conversion of a forest into land that is not a forest. The regulation of forestry is necessary in order to protect forests and also to ensure that forestry operations and activities are carried out in compliance with the principles of sustainable forest management (SFM). There is an obvious need to avoid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (7 Dec 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...butter, cheese and Irish whiskey. Preliminary Central Statistics Office (CSO) results indicate that in 2022, the agrifood sector accounted for 6.7% of GNI*, up from 6.2% in 2021 and 6.4% in 2020. CSO data also indicates the value of output at producer prices or farm gate prices rose from €8.4 billion in 2020 to €12.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 47%. At the same time...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...genotyping programme, which is available to both beef and dairy herd owners, and will run over a five-year period from 2023 until 2027. It represents a significant step towards genotyping of the national bovine herd. By harnessing genetic data, the programme will empower Irish farmers to make informed breeding decisions, optimise herd management and animal welfare and contribute towards...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Cybersecurity Policy (21 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is mandatory for all staff joining the Department to complete training with modules in Information Security, Cyber Security and Data Protection and the Department issues regular cyber security awareness communications to all staff. For operational and security reasons, the Department has been advised by the National Cyber Security Centre not to disclose details which could, in any way,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (8 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Pesticide active substances, such as glyphosate, are assessed centrally at EU level and approved, or not. Plant protection products containing approved active substances are subsequently assessed for specific uses nationally and authorised, or not, using robust scientific evaluation and decision-making criteria. The EU process to decide whether or not the existing EU-approval of glyphosate...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Artificial Intelligence (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...to H5N1 (Bird flu).Customer Segmentation analysis for developing Agri-Food policies.Analysis for identifying risk factors for Microbial Food Safety.Smart Text analysis to prevent and contain data breaches.sAll current and future use cases are subject to human review, data protection and governance measures. More broadly, the Deputy may wish to be aware that the Department of Public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Breeding (7 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...support to suckler and beef farmers to improve the environmental sustainability of the national beef herd. The programme aims to build on the gains delivered in recent years through the Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP) and the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme (BEEP) by improving the genetic merit of the Irish suckler herd. The beef Euro-Star Index will see improvements...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...water quality and the Nitrates Directive. These Officials also jointly chair the Nitrates Expert Group (NEG), comprising of senior scientific experts from both Departments, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Teagasc. The NEG provides myself and Minister O'Brien, with scientific advice on measures under the NAP. NEG meetings are held regularly throughout the year, and more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pre-Agriculture and Fisheries Council: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...produce the biological and socio-economic assessments. The waters surrounding Ireland contain some of the most productive fishing grounds in the EU. We have a duty of care and a national self-interest to protect their biological richness and, as such, they must be managed responsibly and sustainably. My Department, along with BIM, continues to work together with fishers to adapt and to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (24 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Pesticide active substances, such as glyphosate, are approved centrally at EU level. Thereafter, plant protection products containing approved active substances are subsequently authorised for specific uses nationally using robust scientific evaluation and decision-making criteria. The EU process to decide whether or not the current EU-approval of glyphosate can be renewed is ongoing. The...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Special Areas of Conservation (18 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: ...vast majority of the second folio is also within in the same SPA and SAC apart from a very small portion which is outside the designated sites. Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are prime wildlife conservation areas in the country, considered to be important on a European as well as Irish level. The legal basis on which SACs are selected and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Data Protection (17 Oct 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: For operational and security reasons it is not considered appropriate to disclose specific details on the nature of data breaches experienced by my Department. I can confirm that the majority of the data breaches were classified as low risk breaches. The Department did contact relevant individuals with respect to data breaches where it was deemed appropriate to do so, in line with GDPR...