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Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Nobody should be in any doubt that the reason we are debating this legislation is the catastrophic failure of the Irish financial system due to reckless property speculation and the appalling mismanagement of some of our financial institutions. It is the business of Deputies in Dáil Éireann, as legislators, to create the law, it is the business of the Executive to govern and it...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work that is being done by his Department to identify technical and regulatory solutions to the problem of scam calling. [44501/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether there has been a large increase in scam calling recently; if work has been undertaken to identify the extent of this increase that is as a result of the hacking of the HSE and the resulting loss of data. [44502/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 92. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work that is being carried out by his Department to identify technical and regulatory solutions to the problem of neighbour spoofing (details supplied). [44503/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 93. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the adequacy of consumer protection and security for consumers in the mobile phone industry; and his views on whether security solutions are outdated and inadequate to protect customers from scam calling. [44504/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 94. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out investigations of measures being taken to protect citizens from scam calling in other jurisdictions, such as the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act in the US; and if he has legal and regulatory powers to legislate against such scam calls here. [44505/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 95. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if any work is being carried out at European level to prevent citizens from scam calling and other unethical phone practices. [44506/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has carried out any investigation of robust call authentication SHAKEN and STIR protocols to verify caller identification; and if he has had any communication with the Commission for Communications Regulation on technological solutions to neighbourhood spoofing and other unethical practices. [44507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the adoption of call authentication technologies to verify that incoming calls are legitimate before ever reaching consumers; if he has had any discussions with the regulator, industry bodies, the Department of Justice, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment or any other bodies regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the increase in scam phone calls being received and reported by members of the public; and the role he sees for his Department under the consumer protection remit in building a picture of the nature and quantity of scam calls. [44515/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 100. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the role his Department has in protecting consumers from automated scam calls. [44516/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department has taken to investigate the impact of scam calls based on age; if his Department has data on whether reliance on telephony makes older persons more susceptible to scam calls; the action being taken by his Department to protect older persons from scam calls; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will establish a joint working group on scam calling with the relevant Departments and regulatory and industry bodies to identify legal, technological and regulatory solutions to the related issues of autodialling commercial calls, telephony fraud, number spoofing and leaking of customer data which leaves...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 166. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to repeated difficulties being reported in cases in which goods purchased by Irish consumers from vendors outside the EU are being returned to senders by An Post in instances in which the correct customs information is being provided by sellers on packages and that responsibility for the returns are being passed between An...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that were made to co-ordinate the timing of the leaving certificate results and UCAS deadlines and to communicate the timing of those results with the UCAS system in the UK to allow Irish students take-up courses; the number of students who were unable to take-up places at UK universities in 2021 as a result of the delay in results...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 417. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason Irish-born children of mothers who are seeking international protection are prohibited from access to any social protection benefits in Ireland. [45250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the technical issue with the CAO system which affected a number of students such as a student (details supplied) whose exam numbers were rendered as a series of zeros in error and who subsequently were not properly considered for the first round of offers; if a similar issue occurred in previous years; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts that were made to co-ordinate the timing of the leaving certificate results and UCAS deadlines and to communicate the timing of those results with the UCAS system in the UK to allow Irish students take-up courses; the number of students who were unable to take-up places at UK universities in 2021 as a result of the delay in results...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am a bit taken aback by the attitude of Government speakers in particular. If any of the principals who have been in contact with are watching these deliberations, they will be pulling their hair out. Frankly, the return to school was a positive for many schools but there were individual school principals who had never contacted local representatives before in their lives but were forced...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I sent a message to the Taoiseach and the Minister for Education this morning relating to a second-level school in Donaghmede that Deputy Duncan Smith and I visited this morning. The conditions in which the children and staff are working are quite deplorable. I ask the Government to address the issue as soon as it possibly can. I want to raise the issue of the return to school. In our...