Results 10,401-10,420 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall
- Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: Those are guidelines, not legislation.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: I wish to speak to amendments Nos. 27 and 30 in this grouping. Amendment No. 27 relates to the digital age of consent, which as it stands offers very little protection to children and young people, despite the fact that Recital 38 notes that, "Children merit specific protection with regard to their personal data as they may be less aware of the risks, consequences and safeguards concerned."...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: I wish to come back on a couple of points. First, on the age of consent, there are two reasons I proposed to raise that to 16. The first is in respect of contract law. The minimum age for participation in a contract is 16. Equally, the age to give consent for a medical procedure is 16, and it makes sense to bring it into line with that. Whether it is 13 or 16 I do not think people should...
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: Is the Minister saying we cannot protect children from direct marketing?
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: We cannot protect children's data.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: When will we do it? Should we do it by encouraging voluntary codes? The Minister is not serious.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: The most relevant word in what the Minister has quoted is "may".
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: I move amendment No. 30:In page 23, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:"Profiling of children 31. It shall be unlawful for a data controller to profile the data of a child for marketing purposes when that child is under 16 years of age.".
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: 66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 20 March 2018, the steps he is taking to respond to the matter of pay and conditions for the Defence Forces; the challenges in the Defence Forces that the Public Service Pay Commission has been tasked with; if the management of the Defence Forces has made its submission to the commission as...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if members of the Reserve Defence Forces have legal protection regarding the safeguarding of their positions in their regular employment if they are absent due to RDF missions abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19244/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Activation Projects (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in implementing the recommendations of the Make Work Pay report (details supplied) in view of the fact that 71% of persons of working age who have a disability are not in employment; the actions he plans to take in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19164/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: 126. To ask the Minister for Health the assessments that have taken place into the extent of the inability of the HSE to provide home care hours to the level and duration recommended by its occupational therapists in respect of persons under the HSE's care; the basis on which a specific number of hours set down in an occupational therapist's report can be ignored by HSE staff organising home...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (2 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide data (details supplied) published by his Department in respect of affordable housing in each of the years 2012 to 2017. [19163/18]
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: An appalling vista is certainly emerging. There is an even greater number of people who have not been audited.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: That is why we need further information over the coming days. It is not enough for the Minister just to say he is setting up an inquiry. Apart from the women who have been diagnosed with cancer, we are all very conscious of the thousands of women around the country who are very nervous about this and are beginning to question the validity of smear tests they have had. The Minister has...
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: It is entirely unsympathetic and unhelpful for people who are worried sick about their potential condition and the validity of previous smear tests. Will the Minister undertake to get that message changed in the morning?
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: This evening.
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: I read out a response to an email. That response needs to change rapidly. The Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 was passed last November. A key provision of the Bill was to force doctors to tell patients about mistakes that had been made but the Government introduced an amendment to make this voluntary rather than mandatory. The Minister for Justice and Equality recognised the input...
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: That does not explain why that did not happen last November. I am shocked that the 162 women at the centre of this scandal have not all been contacted. I expected after the Minister set up the expert group that those women would be contacted by Friday last. The number is 162 which should be a manageable number to make contact with. I cannot believe that five days later those women have...
- National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)
Róisín Shortall: It is unforgivable.