Results 41-54 of 54 for data protection speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Passports Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Oct 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...a passport. I will table an amendment to this effect on Committee Stage. For once we are producing legislation to regulate how passports are issued. The Bill introduces the use of biometric data to the process. This automatically raises human rights concerns, especially regarding the right to privacy. We have a data protection commissioner and the Irish Human Rights Commission. In the...

International Agreements: Motion. (4 Jul 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...citizens in terms of this debate, such as anti-discrimination measures, where is the rush to the optional protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, the draft framework decision on data protection or the UN Convention on Trafficking? This Government and other European Governments sit on the legislation and analyse the implications, but no such analysis is contained in the...

Domestic Violence: Motion (27 Feb 2007)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and ongoing in service training for gardaí given the distinct nature of crimes of domestic and sexual violence; guidelines should be introduced detailing criteria for the granting of safety, protection and barring orders, as should regular information seminars for the Judiciary on the dynamics and impact of domestic violence, the latest international research into effectively stopping...

Europol (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move amendment No 2: In page 4, lines 25 and 26, to delete ", with any necessary modifications,". On Committee Stage, I argued that we must ensure the Data Protection Acts we have passed in this House will have full effect over this Bill. Currently, the Bill contains the wording "with any necessary modifications" but it does not detail who decides the modifications or what might be...

Europol (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...the legislation but it is a pity the Minister of State has not provided a satisfactory reply to my question. Is it envisaged that the protocols covered by the Bill will be subject to 25 different Data Protection Acts in the European Union? Will the Parliamentary Counsel make the "necessary modifications"? Have those modifications been identified? Is this only a case of dotting the i's...

Europol (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the high level conference on the future of Europol of February 2006 stated that "ways should be found to enable Europol to exchange information also with countries that do not have the same data protection standards as those applicable within the European Union". This legislation will not allow for this because it is specific to what is in place, which suggests the Government is...

International Agreements: Motion (11 Oct 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Since 5 February 2003, the US requires in-flying airlines to provide the US authorities with electronic access to 34 items of data on passengers. While some passenger data systems contain a limited amount of information, others contain far more extensive data, such as details of past travel, car and hotel reservations, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, residential and business addresses...

Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (8 Jun 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...consider the revelations of the Morris tribunal, the Kerry babies saga and the Sallins set-up. Safeguards against, and remedies in the event of, such abuse are glaringly thin on the ground. Such protection should be prioritised. Debate at this stage is futile because the instruments to which this Bill gives effect were passed at EU level six years ago following cursory, insufficient...

Written Answers — European Council Meetings: European Council Meetings (25 Apr 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...level scheduled for the margins of the Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg on 27 and 28 April 2006; and if he will make a statement on agenda item number 8, a framework decision on data protection, including the status of the decision and in particular the detail of positions the Government intend to take on the matter. [15324/06]

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (25 Apr 2006)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 742: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the US expressing serious concern regarding the potential negative impact that the draft framework decision on data protection would have on its bilateral relations with member states during the course of the EU-US informal high level meeting on freedom, security and justice on 2 and 3 March 2006 in Vienna;...

Employment Permits Bill 2005: Second Stage (Resumed). (12 Oct 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...footing. In stipulating the criteria to guide ministerial discretion it defines the public interest very narrowly, in terms of public order, national security, health and safety and the need to protect the labour market. It does not address fundamental issues that should be considered in determining the public interest, such as integration and family reunification. These would be required...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Minister has introduced the new sections of the Bill is contrary to Regulating Better, which states: "we will require higher standards of evidence before regulating". Existing provisions allow for data to be retained for six months, or for a longer period under warrant. It is not correct to claim that we need to introduce these measures because the Data Protection Commissioner plans to...

Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (12 Oct 2004)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, that the Government has introduced a data retention proposal to the EU providing for universal surveillance of the entire European population and, in doing so, has ignored our Data Protection Commissioner's expressed doubts over its legitimacy and legality, as well as the EU Data...

Citizenship Referendum. (1 Jun 2004)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I could not expect the Minister to give a full answer to the document which, in its entirety, concluded that the data on which the Government has relied to date are totally insufficient to allow anybody to infer the motives of non-nationals giving birth in Ireland. The document also concluded that the Government had not given sufficient consideration to the future constitutional protections...