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Covid-19 (Transport, Tourism and Sport): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Michael Lowry: ...of Aer Lingus lie not with its executives but with its unique staff. These staff members, who are scattered across Tipperary and the rest of the country, are currently living their lives under a black cloud of uncertainty. The Government is keeping them in their jobs, for which they are grateful, but their futures are vulnerable and uncertain. This vulnerability will have a ripple...

Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)

Brendan Griffin: ...term tourism recovery plan for this important sector. Given the severity of the crisis there are calls from the industry to reduce the VAT rate for tourism. Tourism will be a very competitive market globally as recovery takes hold and competing destinations will all be considering how they can best gain a competitive advantage. Tourism businesses are already putting together sales and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2019: Motion (26 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...statement. As a small country, there are very few things we can claim to be the best in the world at but we can justifiably claim to be the best in these two sports. We produce the best and can compete with, and beat, the best, which is a significant achievement for a country of our size. The chairman of HRI and the chief executive and chairman of Bord na gCon have made presentations to...

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Pat Breen: ...gap with the larger multinationals, particularly in the area of productivity. That is something we will highlight this afternoon during the debate and we will examine how we can get Irish SMEs to be more productive and to compete with the big multinational companies. The Government is concerned about that gap, so much so that it is the theme of Future Jobs Ireland, pillar 2 of which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: WorldSkills Competition 2019: Discussion (24 Sep 2019)

Mr. Ray English: I would like to make a couple of points. We recognise as champions the 17 people who went to Kazan this year and indeed all of those who competed in the competition in previous years. WorldSkills has also recognised them by giving them special pins to mark their achievements as competitors and champions. We do not make enough use of that when they are back here. Why are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Alliance-Building in the European Union: Discussion (10 Jul 2019)

Bernard Durkan: ..., it is of tremendous importance to recognise that we are equals in that field. To be equal, we have to be equal in every sense and equally meet our responsibilities. While I am not sure I am competent to advise our legal friends on what they might do, a couple of things come to mind. Over the years of my public life, I have had occasion to attend courts in the United Kingdom,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (4 Jul 2019)

Richard Bruton: ...network will commence shortly after that. This plan will ensure that rural Ireland will have the same opportunities as urban Ireland. Digital participation helps small and medium businesses to compete successfully on a global scale, accessing more customers and enabling businesses to streamline their efficiencies to provide for cloud computing, back-up and recovery and e-commerce...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Online Safety (26 Jun 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...a domestic power relating to issues such as subscriber information which, as the Council of Europe has outlined, is often the most sought after data in criminal investigations due to the growth of cloud computing, remote data storage and so on. This raises serious challenges for competent authorities seeking access to specified compute data. It hinders criminal investigations and An...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Microgeneration Support Scheme Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2019)

...prosumer engagement; resource appreciation and understanding, including enhanced models for solar PV and wind energy harvesting for domestic scales, where modelling of insolation patterns and cloud cover, as well as energy mapping will be needed; and network support mechanisms, including storage options and network voltage support requirements. From an environmental perspective, the net...

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...the Bill. If the industry does not take it on board, it will be in the last chance saloon. It is an important opportunity for the industry to put an appropriate regime in place and to remove any cloud that hangs over it. As Deputy O'Keeffe has said, it is an important rural industry that is spread right throughout the regions. People were taken aback that virtually no sanctions were in...

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Joan Burton: ...proportion of those people who are now back at work face a serious risk of unemployment and families, individuals, towns and the whole country may again experience distress and hardship. We have the largest cloud hanging over the economy since the bank guarantee, NAMA, the collapse of the banks and the working out of that. I was part of the Government that had to take up the reins of...

Seanad: Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome the Minister of State. Dr. Henry Cloud wrote:We change our behaviour when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. This time last year, Dr. Aodh Quinlivan included that quote in an article he wrote for theIrish Examiner on this proposed local government Bill. It is quite clear the status...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018)

...sectors, including health, education, transport, energy, financial services, banking and Internet infrastructure. For those seven sectors, what we are obliged to do, along with one other national competent authority, is to identify which entities we regard as being important. We then oblige those entities to meet security standards and to report serious incidents to the NCSC. That is...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Nov 2018) See 1 other result from this debate

Kieran O'Donnell: ...the house was going to collapse. I am sure many others experienced the same. There were terrible storms. When I got up in Monaleen in Castletroy where I live, it was sunny, as it is every morning. The clouds had passed, but we have a cloud that is Brexit. I expect it to pass and that we will have very mild drizzle and a couple of sun showers, but, equally, we may have torrential rain....

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...a focus solely on policy changes, with the reasonable expectation being that there were other opportunities to review ongoing policies. Unfortunately, now nearly every area is shrouded in a cloud of meaningless figures which tells one almost nothing about new or additional policy decisions which have been taken. It says something about the Government that it put out videos praising...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Michael McGrath: ...and the extension of film relief. The time limited regional uplift in the film relief is an important initiative. Our capital gains tax, CGT, regime for businesses and enterprises needs major reform, as it is currently uncompetitive when set against the jurisdictions with which we compete. CGT is simply too high for people wanting to invest or start their own company. We had asked...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...against individuals who specifically target minorities on the basis of racism, homophobia, ableism or other bigoted biases. As a result, we have no data for such incidents, which means that we have no competence in knowing how widespread these issues are. We might get a shock, although I hope not, when we do start to collate such data. I am aware that the Irish Council for Civil...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (31 May 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...binding obligations in respect of security measures and incident reporting. The Directive also requires the State to apply a new regulatory regime on Digital Service Providers (DSPs) in the areas of cloud computing, online search engines and online market places. The Directive also places other obligations on the State in terms of ensuring that States can cooperate and share information...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (10 May 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...security requirements and to report incidents. The Directive also requires all Member States to apply and police a new unified regulatory regime on Digital Service Providers (DSPs), which include cloud computing providers, search engines providers and providers of online market places. The Directive also places obligations on the State itself, with a view to ensuring that States can...

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...same applies to Departments and all public bodies. The simple fact is that data protection law has not kept pace with the many technological advances and new business models such as social media and cloud computing that have emerged in recent years. Our current law, based on the European Union’s 1995 data protection directive, predates mass Internet usage, hand held devices, apps...