Results 1-20 of 30 for data protection speaker:Sharon Keogan

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Sharon Keogan: ...? How are schools and educational welfare officers being supported, along with foster parents? Many of these children actually go missing from foster care settings so support should be given to protect these children. On the delays in reporting, a 2024 update of the Ombudsman's Taking Stock report found persistent delays in Tusla's handling of child protection cases. What steps has...

Seanad: Public Health (Restriction on Sale of Stimulant Drinks to Children) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 May 2025)

Sharon Keogan: ..." and "authorised officer" to ensure consistent application of the Bill. Section 2 empowers the Minister for Health to make regulations necessary to implement the Act to adopt new public health data or industry practices. Section 3 outlines three goals: ban sales to under-18s, restrict advertising to minors and require health warnings. It excludes parental provision to their own...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Sharon Keogan: ..., the birds directive and the environmental impact assessment directive among others. As a consequence, 700 acres have been damaged. The decision was also based on the fact that the lake had protected status as a turlough, a naturally draining lake which disappears and reappears with the weather and the seasons. However, locals say that the lough had not been draining since 1996. The...

Seanad: Community Safety: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Sharon Keogan: ...of the criminals. In 2022, plans to consider recording nationality were announced. What became of these considerations? Across Europe, many other national police forces have been allowed to record this data and have subsequently studied these questions in depth. This has allowed raw data to inform the conversations and decision-making of other EU nations. The data would suggest...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...surrogacy industry and is compounded now by the Ukrainian war. Lamberton states: In most surrogacy contracts, women give up all rights related to controlling their pregnancies. While there is no large-scale data, surrogates report undergoing forced abortions of fetuses unwanted by clients, significant underpayment, unsafe and oppressive living environments provided by surrogacy...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...has committed to introducing a pilot scheme, the training of gardaí on these devices is really important. I cannot stress that enough. Many gardaí do not even know how to access current CCTV data. It is really important to have training for whoever will be controlling the data. To avoid the risk of problems arising, it is very reasonable to have an amendment asking for the...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: Who will be carrying out the privacy impact assessment or the data protection impact assessment after this? Whose role is that? Is that the Minister's role or is it the Commissioner's role?

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ..., between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “(f) shall do so after receiving sufficient training to make them suitably qualified to use the relevant device, and after receiving sufficient data protection training so as to render them proficient in operating the device in accordance with legislation regulating the use of data, (g) shall do so after a pilot scheme in respect...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Sep 2023)

Sharon Keogan: In my speech I wish to draw attention to the possible data protection issues that may arise because of this legislation. While technology brings new opportunities to deal with the crisis of law and order nationwide, it is important that we do so while respecting civil liberties and the right to privacy of citizens. Following much public consultation and increased criminal activity, I was...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...with the Minister for Justice on the use of body cameras and facial recognition technology. The Government's handling of this will be extremely costly and will result in serious issues relating to data protection and the protection of civil liberties. The press release issued by the Department of Justice states the Garda Commissioner will begin tendering for the purchase of body cameras....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...Union member states. The WHO states it is going to take up the European Union system of digital Covid-19 certificates to establish a global system that will help to facilitate global mobility and protect citizens throughout the world from ongoing and future health threats. When the people of Ireland agreed to EU Covid-19 passports, they did not also consent to those data being retained...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...upon the Government to undertake initiatives to politicians from surveillance by foreign Governments and private tech companies. The rather lax approach to security, along with the nature of our data protection laws, means that the Ministers, Deputies, Senators, city and county councillors along with the people who work with them are all vulnerable. Within the past week, major concern...

Seanad: Moving Towards Zero Tolerance of Violence against Women: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...he started in that role. I wish him good luck for the next few months while he is there. Today's topic relates to the zero tolerance of violence against women. I wish to discuss some of these data. The World Health Organization and its partners have shown that one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner, and this number has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...have been approached by the current Iranian ambassador to meet with him to discuss the situation in Iran. What concerns me more was the attempt by some Iranian hacker to access my personal online data last week. I do not need to remind this House that the regime is working behind closed doors in every democracy here in Europe. We know what can happen to people when they speak up against...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...70 per cent of Ireland’s electricity is supposed to come from renewables by 2030, it is expected that most of Ireland’s energy will come from onshore and offshore wind fields as well as solar energy; - data centres currently consume up to 11 per cent of Ireland's electricity; - the building of data centres will increase Ireland's demand for electricity by at least 40 per...

Seanad: Passport Office Service: Motion (2 Feb 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...A number of Senators mentioned the relaxation of the checks and balances relating to children's passports, particularly first-time passports. I would not recommend any easing of those restrictions.Protecting our children is clearly very important and the last thing we want to see when there are difficulties or break-ups in marriages is our children being abducted. For two years, we have...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...of State's reply. I support the Bill and thank Senator Malcolm Byrne for bringing it to the House. Three great loves of mine are empowering local government, being tough on crime and good data management. I supported the Labour Party's Local Government (Use of CCTV in Prosecution of Offences) Bill 2021 last year but argued that its scope needed to be broadened. That seems to have...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (7 Dec 2021)

Sharon Keogan: I welcome the Tánaiste. The Government's reaction to the Omicron variant makes a mockery of the idea of living with Covid. It slapped restrictions into place based on zero data, when the ink on the newspapers reporting the variant’s mere existence was not even dry, and the panic machine swung into overdrive. Common sense and critical thinking have not made their way into...

Seanad: Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Sharon Keogan: ...in its capital quadrupling. Drastic action was taken not in the form of foisting responsibility for disease control onto the population by enforcing lockdowns but by rising to the challenge and protecting the people. If our health system is now burdened, it is not the fault of people who choose not to get vaccinated or children who want to go to school or play basketball. Responsibility...

Seanad: Aviation Sector: Statements (21 Jun 2021)

Sharon Keogan: .... Does air travel and this sector of our economy not mean anything to us? Do we not care about the livelihoods of 245,000 Irish people? Throughout this pandemic, we have been told to follow the data and science. This nation is unique to the hundreds of other nations across the world that allow antigen testing. On this point of antigen testing, Ireland is following no data and no...