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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (16 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...to ensure everyone feels safe. The legal framework which provides for the operation of community CCTV requires that any proposed scheme must: be approved by the local Joint Policing Committee*, have a data protection impact assessment prepared, have the prior support of the relevant local authority, which must act as a joint data controller with An Garda Síochána and a joint...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

...area of concern. We have also raised an issue with the breadth and general terms in which the information-sharing powers are phrased. At this stage it is probably more a matter of European data protection law than Irish constitutional law. Again, it touches on the question of protection of rights that Senator Ruane raised. The only other issue relates to the question of the...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...the next generation of smokers through marketing its products to children and young people and dumping cheap products in the developing world, and how it funds and uses front organisations to protect its interests. Through this process of briefing key leaders and influencers, by October 2003 the entire trade union movement had swung behind the move for a legislative solution to a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ..., as are more evidence-based policies and planning to improve road safety. I wish to raise a specific concern I have. The Road Safety Authority has not been able to share road traffic collision data with councils for six years, apparently due to GDPR concerns. I understand that tonight on "Prime Time" we will hear experts describe local authority road engineering teams, which...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...stopping the clock and then adding in the time. Let us say there is a project where there has been an environmental assessment, habitats and species have been looked at, and there has been survey data. All that work is important. If this is a larger project with longer duration permission and the stopping of the clock of the JR is added to that, which could be a few more years, it could...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...migrant smuggling while, at the same time, MEPs are today voting on the EU migration pact to reform asylum policies, which multiple NGOs have said will make it much harder for refugees to seek protection in Europe and which will force more refugees to seek other methods, such as smuggling. This is nonsensical and completely inhumane. We are forcing people into these dire situations and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Ms Mary Murphy: We know the motivation to remain in work is high. A survey, which includes data from Ireland, found that 30% of people across Europe wanted to stay in work longer than they did. What we find is a great diversity in motivation. It can be a sense of identity, love for the work or financial. A point we want to flag is that as we advocate for the abolition of mandatory...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...who sponsor those trials do not come back. That is the first problem we have. The regulatory environment is under-resourced and under-professionalised, particularly in HSE-run hospitals. The data protection process is labyrinthine and contradictory. If multiple institutions are trying to collaborate on a clinical trial, multiple DPOs are giving multiple opinions requiring multiple...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...numerous measures to address this. This has been addressed both through disincentivising bulk purchases, and through positive steps taken to increase the housing supply. Revenue and CSO data show that the higher stamp duty rate has applied to less than 1% of residential property transactions between May 2021 to end-2023, and has applied to less than 2% of total new dwellings completed...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Flexible Work Practices (10 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...with all the relevant stakeholders and is contributing to the policy discussions on the issue. To support work in this area, the following three issues are actively being pursued: Obtain Better Data – there is a general acceptance that data in relation to the nature and extent of cross-border working could be improved. The ESRI has been commissioned to undertake a research...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...the personnel referenced may be identifiable to the general public, thus posing a potential risk to their safety. Furthermore, An Garda Síochána, along with fellow Government Departments and public bodies, is bound by existing Data Protection legislation; the release of figures fewer than 10 has the potential to compromise the protection and privacy of individuals employed by An...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Apr 2024)

Mary Butler: ...by participation in the NHSS or residence in a nursing home. In determining the services covered by the NHSS it was considered very important that the care recipient and the taxpayer would be protected and would not end up paying for the same services twice. For this reason, medications and aids that are already prescribed for individuals under an existing scheme are not included in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (9 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...19 Limerick 80 Waterford 76 It is not possible to break these applications down by year due to the low number of claimants and the need to protect taxpayer confidentiality. It is also not possible, with the data provided to Revenue, to break these applications down into successful and unsuccessful applications. The SRAs were...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (9 Apr 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...1,245.7 1,186.0 It should be noted that this analysis is a point in time exercise and forecasted revenue is estimated using forward projected estimates of energy use from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). It is anticipated that updated energy use data will be available from the SEAI in the coming months and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...for the most at-risk communities. The delivery of these Plans is supported by €1.3 billion through the National Development Plan to 2030. To date, 55 schemes have been completed, which are providing protection to over 13,000 properties and an economic benefit to the State in damages and losses avoided estimated to be in the region of €2 billion. The Catchment Flood Risk...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...scheme’s progress. The Dundalk/Blackrock South and Ardee projects are being progressed simultaneously and engineering and environmental consultants were appointed in 2020. The proposed scheme will protect some 1,880 properties when completed. The emerging scheme option for Dundalk/Blackrock South is expected later in 2024 and the finalisation of options appraisal for Ardee is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (9 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Coastal protection and localised flooding issues are matters, in the first instance, for each local authority to investigate and address. To assist Local Authorities in managing the coastline for coastal erosion, the Office of Public Works (OPW) has undertaken a national assessment of coastal erosion (including erosion rates) under the Irish Coastal Protection Strategy Study (ICPSS) and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Board (RTB) Rent Index is designed to measure developments in rental prices faced by those taking up new tenancies in the private rental sector and from Q2 2023 utilising Annual Registration data, existing tenancy rent price developments. The addition of the Existing Tenancies Index beginning in the Q2 2023 index, significantly strengthens the ability to understand the Private Rental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (9 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: ...as Category II National Parks under the criteria set out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). A Category II National Park is defined as a large natural or near-natural area protecting large-scale ecological processes with characteristic species and ecosystems, which also have to have environmentally and culturally compatible spiritual, scientific, educational,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The introduction of an automatic enrolment (AE) retirement savings system is a Programme for Government commitment and a key priority for me as the Minister for Social Protection. Implementation of the AE system is well underway, with the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024 now published and a tender process to contract for administration services being well advanced....