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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2018 (5 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Notwithstanding that, it is still damning.

Environmental Impact of Quarries and Incinerators: Motion [Private Members] (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I wish to share the timeslot with my three colleagues, Deputies Quinliven, Ellis and Mitchell. I will take five minutes and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle might let me know when my five minutes are up. I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after “basis that the levels of such will be progressively reduced”: “— end ‘side-by-side’ waste...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I wish to speak to question No. 9. The Department of the Taoiseach is obliged to have a statement of strategy. My understanding is that the statement of strategy for the Department will reach its end date this month. We do not know how long this fractured Government has left as we move into 2020. It might be a month, two months or three months. We know that in the by-elections, to use a...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Functions (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: The Taoiseach has 30 seconds to get the bingo answer in.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: We will pat you on the back.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: This year marks the 20th anniversary of the inaugural meeting of the British-Irish Council. Ministers with responsibility for health policy visited the north-east inner-city health hub, which I welcome. It is very important that these types of visits go ahead and that legislators can see what is being done on our behalf in these centres. The Taoiseach also had a bilateral discussion...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Commissions of Investigation Expenditure (4 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: The cost of this investigation is problematic to say the least. The Taoiseach stated that the spend so far has been approximately €6.6 million. On several occasions, he has cited an estimate of the cost, which I imagine was presented to him by his officials, of up to €30 million. There is an obligation on the Taoiseach to outline what this figure is based on and how it was...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Homelessness is increasing every year.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Absolutely.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: There is a lot of slagging going on now.

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Is the Minister of State not very good?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: 502. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projects his Department plans to submit for funding through the Connecting Europe facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49834/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Would it be possible to take the opening statements as read, because we have a vote coming up and we have to be in the Dáil Chamber for 2 p.m.?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Could we have a very quick synopsis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: My questions are to Mr. Davis. There was a report in The Guardian on 26 July of this year. The headline read: "Apple contractors 'regularly hear confidential details' on Siri recordings". I am sure Mr. Davis is aware of that article. It had to do with a whistleblower.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I will quote one of the things that the whistleblower said: "There have been countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on." Is that accurate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: I want to go on to some of the quotes from the whistleblower. What he said was that a number of different words that were picked up wrongly by the iPhone that would trigger Siri and that created a situation where there was inadvertent recordings. He said that they were only encouraged to report these accidental activations as technical problems and there was no specific procedures to deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Okay. He said there is not much vetting of who works there - that is, the company that would be contracted to do it - and he said the amount of data that they are free to look through seems quite broad. He said also that it would not be difficult to identify the person that they are listening to, especially with accidental triggers, because it could include addresses and names. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: Okay. I did it very quickly because I have an iPhone. When a person asks Siri if it is always listening, the response is that it respects a person's privacy, but only when the person is talking to it. That is not quite correct, because if there are inadvertent recordings or listening, it is not as clear cut as that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Dec 2019)

David Cullinane: No, but that is what it said. I did it myself before I came in. I asked Siri if it was always listening, and it came back and said that it respects a person's privacy and that it is only listening when a person is talking to it. That is not quite correct.