Results 9,761-9,780 of 15,009 for speaker:Eoin Ó Broin
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely and-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy to answer the questions, if the Senator would give me just half a second to respond to each one. They are very important questions and I want to give the Senator detailed answers. The training manual was a manual about the use of social media, not about Abú. It is clear, in hindsight, that the person who wrote those particular sentences was not accustomed with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not and the safeguard for this is the Commissioner for Data Protection, who is reviewing all of these matters. We are giving her full access to all of this information. She will make her determination on all of this in time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: The straight answer is that I do not know-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I give the Senator the answer that I was going to give, if he could just give me a second? For example, one of the reasons I cannot answer that is that the party does not centrally control individual constituencies. Candidates in their elections do. It would be normal, for example, for one, two, or three people to have access to that system, including the candidate during the election...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I also just say, so that we are very clear, there was no request from this committee for accountable officers to attend today. There was an invitation to general secretaries, or their nominees. If the Senator had wanted the accountable officer-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: It was in 2019.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am more than happy to forward to the committee later today the actual cost. I just do not have that figure to hand. I apologise to the Senator. If he would just give me a second to answer, it would be no more than the standard cost, for example, for setting up and hosting a website, because that is its function. It was funded by the party in the South. It is hosted by the party. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not know. I have no involvement in the party's expenses in the North but like I say, I am more than happy to confirm in writing to the committee today the cost of the Abú system. There is nothing-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is absolutely correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: The party has always had a data protection-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Can I answer the question? The party has always had a data protection compliance officer. The problem was it was not dedicated and registered with the Data Protection Office. That was an oversight on our part and we have rectified it but we have always had a data protection compliance officer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I do not understand the specific question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: We combine the marked register with the electoral register in individual constituencies, and that would be accessed by people in those constituencies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. The databases for the purposes of the constituencies-----.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. We tightly control and manage who has access to those so it is in the constituencies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: No. We have an online facility that allows candidates and their election teams to access their local electoral registers, whether general or local-----