Results 1-20 of 29 for destroyed speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...on the site at the moment is a presence of security personnel. This is a necessary precaution to protect the site, following attacks at another site in Crooksling, which saw part of the buildings destroyed in a suspected arson attack.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Adoption Authority Of Ireland and Tusla, are undertaking work to provide replies to all other applicants under the scheme. In that legislation, we introduced a provision that makes it an offence to destroy records. That offence is now on the Statute Book. Prior to the commission's report, my Department took on an archivist to make public documents related to the institutions that are...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...protection regulation are that third party data should only be held as long as necessary. An extension of this period could be in breach of those regulations. There is an obligation on an employer to destroy a record. Amendment No. 27 includes in the Bill explicit provision that records related to domestic violence leave be held for three years. Amendments Nos. 25, 26 and 28 are...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...000 people who made applications under the legislation have had their queries answered. There was a key provision providing for preservation of relevant information and making it a criminal offence to destroy such information. The Government has, therefore, taken a first step on preserving information. The next key step is another part of the overall response to mother and baby home and...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...are that third party data should only be held for as long as necessary. Anything in extension of this period could be in breach of those regulations. There is an obligation on the employer to destroy records. This amendment is a technical amendment to include an explicit provision to provide that records relating to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, leave be held for...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...an amendment to take account of the position outlined by Senator Higgins. It was very much the view that the requirements of the general data protection regulation, GDPR, mean an employer must destroy records when it no longer has a legal basis for holding them. That is now the position under EU and domestic law. We believe that is the position that will apply under this legislation....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to maintain and safeguard the relevant record and to inform the Adoption Authority of Ireland of the existence of the record.   Furthermore, under the legislation it is an offence to conceal, destroy, mutilate, or falsify relevant records. This offence carries a penalty of up to 3 years in prison and/or a fine of up to €50,000. Offences shall be reported to An Garda...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...of sealing records. I want to talk about what we did. We preserved a database that the commission of investigation developed. It believed it had to redact that to a point where it would be destroyed. I did not want it to be destroyed, so I brought forward legislation to protect it. The database will be used in this Bill to assist survivors. Rather than survivors having to find some...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ..., and (f) the practices and procedures employed by the Director of FSI to ensure that, in accordance with the requirements of this Act, samples taken under this Act for the purpose of generating DNA profiles are destroyed and the DNA profiles generated from those samples and related information are deleted. (3) The Oversight Committee may, in the performance of its functions under this...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (15 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move amendment No. 57: In page 58, to delete lines 7 and 8 and substitute the following: "67.(1) Subject to subsection (2), FSI shall, at the request of a Director, destroy a sample, delete a DNA profile or delete related information in accordance with this Chapter. (2) Subsection (1)shall not operate to require FSI to delete related information that it needs to retain in order to...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the Minister is of the opinion that— (a) it relates to the care of a child or of children, (b) were it not to be prescribed under this subsection, it or a part of it would be at risk of being destroyed or otherwise lost, and (c) having regard to its historical or social value, it is in the public interest that it be prescribed under this subsection. There are significant...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...become aware of a relevant record held by any person, I am confident that it can take that record. In particular, if the authority considers the record to be at risk, for example, of being lost or destroyed, it can take that record. These sections will work in tandem with the Minister's ability to prescribe information sources to guarantee the relevant records will be safeguarded and can...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (24 May 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...ochána. I am not sure how the Senator’s amendment, which would place the obligation for a large-scale investigation on Tusla when the answer could be that, for example, a fire at a particular agency had destroyed the records, would advance the process. The obligation would be on Tusla, not recalling that Tusla’s job in this context is to try to provide information to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Apr 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...was advised by the Office of the Attorney General that this technical report had to be returned as it constituted evidence to the Commission. This was done and all copies of the technical report were destroyed by the Department. The technical report was included in the Commission's final report.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Feb 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...that the final report states that witnesses were asked for permission to record their evidence on the clear understanding that the recordings would be used only as an aide-mémoire, and then be destroyed.  I have engaged intensively with the Commission to resolve the understandable concerns of survivors in relation to the audio recordings made by the Confidential Committee....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Feb 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...“Witnesses were asked for permission to record their evidence on the clear understanding that the recordings would be used only as an aide memoire for the researcher when compiling the report and would then be destroyed. All such recordings were destroyed after the report was added to the Confidential Committee electronic repository of information.” Therefore, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...can get access to their personal information, which I am committed to doing in the context of the information management unit set up by my Department. In the context of the audio material being destroyed, we are also looking to provide a right to rectification and, again, my Department has put some time into ascertaining how that could happen. We can get a better outcome for survivors in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (10 Feb 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...were asked for permission to record their evidence on the clear understanding that the recordings would be used only as an aide memoire for the researcher when compiling the report and would then be destroyed. All such recordings were destroyed after the report was added to the Confidential Committee electronic repository of information.” Therefore, the decision not to retain these...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (21 Jan 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...final conclusions of the report. The then Attorney General advised that this constituted evidence to the Commission and had to be returned to the Commission. All copies held by the Department were destroyed. This content of the technical report is now captured in the final report along with the relevant final conclusions of the Commission. Another issue raised in the Interim Report...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: EU Funding (3 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...will welcome up to 50 people in family groups from Greece under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) following displacement from the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos due to the recent fire that destroyed the camp. The implementation of the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) for resettling refugees requires a high level of coordination among service delivery agencies...