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Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: I support the amendment. I am familiar with the chiropractors' situation, in particular, and have visited some of the chiropractors' surgeries and have seen the equipment and the investment they have made in that equipment and in training and upskilling themselves to use those machines. It is a significant outlay for their practices. I suppose there is a dichotomy in that there is a...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: May I speak to the amendment?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: I thank the Minister for his guidance. A concern has been raised by the Irish Association of Physicists in Medicine, which has great knowledge of these practices, in regard to registration being a permanent and once-off process without any subsequent checks, renewals or inspections. Once a practitioner is registered, that is it. In any circumstance, if a test must be met and a person does...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: The Minister has been very helpful. I might introduce an amendment on Report Stage. I just want to flag that at this point. I will engage further with the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the upgrade of the national mobile telephone coverage plan; the steps he has taken to improve it in accordance with the measures and timetables set out in the programme for partnership Government; the way in which these actions have improved or impacted on the quality of telecommunications services for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (25 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan; the date on which the contract will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17966/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Development (24 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of funding and delivery of the greenway project for Naas, Sallins and Ardclough to the Dublin section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17761/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services Provision (24 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to increase capacity levels on Irish Rail commuter trains; and the expenditure allocated for the purchase of new rolling stock for Irish Rail. [17760/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Retirements (24 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda retirements from each Garda station in County Kildare in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18089/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 21. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of an endoscopy unit for Naas General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17108/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (19 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 26. To ask the Minister for Health the range of health services that are available in the Kilcock primary health care facility; the number of general practitioners that are due to or that have commenced practice in this centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17109/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 235. To ask the Minister for Health if a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17161/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: I welcome the witnesses. It was good to listen to their presentation. I congratulate them on setting up the group and on coming before us to engage in respect of this issue. When one is trying to run a business, one has enough things to do in terms of one's shopfront or backyard without having to lobby or advocate for changes in legislation. I understand that the frustration they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: Yes. I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (18 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the primary care centre for Leixlip, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16913/18]

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: To follow on from Deputy Jim O'Callaghan's comments, I welcome the Data Protection Bill implementing the GDPR. I will reflect on the origins of data protection in general for a moment. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan spoke of the rights of the individual. It is important to note that data protection is not a technological aspect but a human rights issue. Data protection has its origins in the many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Influence of Social Media on Elections and Referenda: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: The Max Schrems case which generated an investigation by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner in 2012 related to third party consent which is exactly what the Kogan app used in 2013 which came out of Cambridge Analytica in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Am I right in saying that if action had been taken at that time none of the sequence of events that followed would have been possible? When the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: I welcome Mr. Kaplan and Ms Sweeney from Facebook and thank them for joining us today. As this is the first hearing of the scrutiny of my Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017, I shall briefly outline the legislation for the benefit of committee members and all interested parties before moving on to the Facebook engagement. The Irish Electoral Acts were written...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion (17 Apr 2018)

James Lawless: I welcome the move in the 25th paper. That is progress and it is very welcome. It is good to see it. A number of my questions will be about the feasibility technically of meeting the requirements of my legislation and I suppose the witnesses have answered that in one sense because of the things that Facebook is doing voluntarily. Obviously it is possible. I had hoped it would go further...