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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Cyber Security Policy (14 Feb 2018)

Denis Naughten: ...telecommunications sectors. In addition to critical national infrastructure, the Directive also requires that States apply a new regulatory regime to Digital Service Providers (DSPs). These will include cloud computing providers, search engines providers and providers of online market places. Critically, the State will have responsibility for dealing with the security of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Yield (13 Feb 2018)

Paschal Donohoe: ...3 15.2 Sweden 16.4 17.1 16.7 18.7 4.8 2.5 2.4 2.7 11.6 14.7 14.3 16 United Kingdom 113.8 122.2 116.7 119 32.4 17.5 16.6 17 81.5 105 100.1 102.1 In relation to Question 7037-18, regarding the potential growth in cloud computing services as highlighted by the Deputy, MOSS accounts for VAT that is chargeable on business to consumer supplies. VAT on intra-community business to business...

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Second Stage (8 Feb 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...retain. The same applies to Government Departments and 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 cloud computing that have emerged in recent years. Our current data protection law, which is based on the EU's 1995 data protection directive, predates mass Internet usage, hand-held...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2018)

Aindrias Moynihan: ...thousands of people across rural Cork desperately in need of high-speed broadband. Last night I met with people in Ballinora which overlooks Cork city and is adjacent to EMC, one of the largest cloud computing companies in the world. However, they struggle to get an Internet connection or even a mobile phone connection. It is the same in places like Ballinageary, Ballinagree,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (6 Feb 2018)

Charles Flanagan: ...infrastructures can meet the demands of the organisation. The ICT strategy will examine how each business unit within ICT can support the current and future needs of the organisation, leveraging new technologies (e.g. cloud computing) and aligning with Government strategies. A redevelopment of the PULSE system is also envisaged to ensure that the user interface, system architecture...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Information and Communications Technology (14 Dec 2017)

Patrick O'Donovan: ...represents both current and capital investment in building and supporting a range of infrastructures such as the Government networks service, the build-to-share common applications and the private Government cloud platforms. A further €7.5 million has been provided in budget 2018 for the roll-out of the strategy. As the Deputy will be aware, the implementation of the EU general...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (5 Dec 2017)

Charles Flanagan: ...and communications infrastructures can meet the demands of the organisation.  The ICT strategy will examine how each business unit within ICT can support the current and future needs of the organisation, leveraging new technologies (e.g. cloud computing) and aligning with government strategies.  A redevelopment of the PULSE system is also envisaged to ensure that the user...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (9 Nov 2017)

...security directive, which will put very significant obligations on critical infrastructure providers, namely, the energy companies and transport, and on the digital service providers, namely, the cloud computer providers such as Amazon, eBay, Google and so on. We spent a lot of money in the past few years, particularly the last two years, on beefing-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

...’s 1995 data protection directive and predate technological advances - such as hand-held Internet access and access to services, social networking and big data, as well as new business models such as cloud computing - are inadequate and ineffective to meet the challenges of the digital economy. Third, there is the rapidly developing case law of the Court of Justice in relation to...

Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (1 Jun 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ...closely with the national cyber security centre, NCSC. The NCSC is a division of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and encompasses the State's national governmental computer security incident response team. In addition, as part of the public service ICT strategy, consideration is being given to the formation of a highly skilled cyber security team as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...ROS system has been an administratively successful system. It can be done in an Irish context. At this stage, the ROS system must be 15 years old or more. I have a broader question. Prior to computers everything was manual, and systems were based on the written word. Everything is now moving towards data access, the cloud and so on. Has the legal framework that was in place to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Apr 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...is an opportunity to create cybercrime investigative capacity within a serious and organised unit. As part of the responsibility of such a unit, a national cybercrime strategy should be developed. In its more than 20 years in existence, the computer crime investigation unit at the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation has had many successes in detecting crimes such as computer related...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...huge problem since the recession. Gardaí have been left high and dry. This time two years ago I met a garda in a Garda station shortly after a storm. He did not have a working mobile phone or a computer on which to access PULSE. When I met him again he told me that he went home early that day because owing to a lack of resources there was nothing for him to do in the station....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Records (23 Feb 2017)

Richard Bruton: Expenditure to date on cloud computing since its adoption by my Department in 2015, has amounted to €24,699 (exclusive of VAT). No other costs were incurred by my Department in the past three years, in respect of third-party data or file storage.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Records (23 Feb 2017)

Leo Varadkar: My Department operates two secure data centres in which all business data is stored. Some limited utilisation of cloud computing services has been undertaken by my Department in recent years, in tandem with the growth in the utilisation of such services in the provision of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services generally. My Department utilises very limited hybrid cloud...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Records (23 Feb 2017)

Charles Flanagan: My Department has not incurred costs on the storage of corporate data on third party or cloud servers. I am aware of the benefits offered by cloud computing and any future activity in this area will be guided by the Public Service ICT Strategy.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)

Tom Neville: ...have been a shying away from any attempt to upgrade IT systems within the health service. Delay is no longer acceptable, however, and the challenge must be met head on. We live in an IT age, with cloud computing and so on. Ten or 12 years after PPARS, however, we still have a paper-based system. Any large organisation in the private sector has an enterprise resource planning, ERP,...

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jan 2017)

Joan Collins: ...under a Labour Party Minister allowing the encouragement of the payment of social welfare payments through the banks. Elderly people are subsidising those deals because they do not use e-mail or computers as much as younger and middle-aged people. I will give a brief summary of the background to this situation. I am a member of the Communications Workers' Union and have been contact...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cyber Security Policy (16 Nov 2016)

Enda Kenny: ...an issue that is probably beyond the competence of most people to deal with, unless they are experienced in electronics, IT and security systems. I take the view that anything that is put into the cloud is retrievable. Most governments and companies, when they put their information on the Internet and the cloud find that the problem is how to protect themselves. The Deputy is correct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Oct 2016)

...is a local political element to it. To answer Deputy Ó Cuív's question on what a good connection looks like, there is no simple answer to this. For instance, a local engineering, architecture or design firm that shares drawings or computer aided design will be very data hungry. On the other hand, for someone simply in a small town or village or rural area whose accountant is...