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Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...will be available to persons who have an authenticated standard authentication framework environment, SAFE, identity, in the form of a public services card issued by the Department of Social Protection and a verified MyGovID account, and will operate in parallel with the existing in-person civil registration service provided in local registration offices by the HSE. The requirement for...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

Dr. Cathal Gallagher: There is a high level of data and graphical information presented on both the protection activities and the protection of water quality in our annual report from 2022, for example. That goes into some detail and differentiates between the different types of protection patrols. There is reference, for example, to 727 boat patrols, 105 kayak patrols and various other...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (25 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 Minister for Social Protection. Implementation of the AE system is well underway, with the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024 now having completed Second Stage in the Dáil and a tender process to contract for administration...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (25 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...Conditions, the consistent poverty rates for persons unable to work due to long-standing health problems, was at 19.7%. However, in the recent published Survey on Income and Living Conditions data, that figure has now reduced to 16.5%, a reduction of 3.2 percentage points. While I am pleased that this rate is coming down, it is still higher than the general population. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Policy (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ..., I believe it is essential that on all on-farm sequestration is accurately reflected in the National Inventory. My Department will do its upmost to ensure that the research needed to fill data gaps regarding hedgerows and their inclusion in the inventory is provided. Teagasc research through the National Agricultural Soil Carbon Observatory (NASCO) and the Signpost Farms, aims to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (25 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...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...freedoms we enjoy today have been achieved over many decades. At a time democracies throughout the world are under attack from autocratic or totalitarian regimes, never was it more important to protect democracy by restoring decision-making powers to those elected to local government. I hope that the directly elected mayor of Limerick will be a first step in restoring powers to locally...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Last year, the Data Protection Commission published a report on an investigation it had launched into the Department of Health keeping dossiers on families who were taking cases against the State over the provision of services to their children with disabilities. There was an outcome to the report, which resulted from a whistleblower’s actions two years earlier. The Department was...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...;ireann: acknowledges that: - the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, and the establishment of the online safety and media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, is a key Government strategy in the protection of children online; - Coimisiún na Meán is developing Ireland’s online safety framework, through binding online safety codes in its capacity as...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 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 Minister for Social Protection. Implementation of the AE system is well underway, with the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024 now having completed Second Stage in the Dáil and a tender process to contract for administration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...of a garda. I know we all appreciate that when a garda starts his or her shift, be it day or night, he or she never knows what will unfold. To paraphrase another phrase I used, who is going to protect the protectors? It is important that we are mindful of this. My worst experience of seeing gardaí being mistreated was in Dolphin House. Eight years ago I visited there after an...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Union and to President Zelenskyy's peace formula. We remain steadfast in our strong political and practical support for Ukraine as it exercises its legitimate right to self-defence against continued Russian aggression. Record numbers of people are now seeking protection in Europe and Ireland due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and, indeed, due to other conflicts across the world. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...Research Collaborative, WUERC, is orientated towards ethnographic studies of the experience of unemployment, including the institutional and administrative infrastructure. We have very limited data on the experience of Means-testing, and nothing as rich as what TDs get in their clinics. TDs are probably world experts on the ins and outs of our welfare system at the client experience...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...all. Some of them would have contact with us. I will stand over how we represent people who approached us but some of them would not have approached us. RTÉ felt that it was unable, under the Data Protection Act, to give us lists. Equally, we do not know who was covered by the Eversheds Sutherland process. In other words, we do not have the list because Eversheds Sutherland did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

..., in addition to those with serious injuries, which are life-altering for both the individuals and their families. We last spoke to the committee in September 2023. We have now analysed collision data for that full year and I would like to first outline key statistics from 2023. I will then discuss some of the emerging trends we have seen in 2024. A total of 185 people were killed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Síochána should not have their hands tied behind their backs when it comes to fighting or detecting crime and putting criminals behind bars, it is important there are safeguards in place. The Act was drafted to take account of the Data Protection Commissioner's concerns regarding community CCTV.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

James Browne: ...air quality enforcement and the implementation of Ireland's first clean air strategy. This further highlights the priority the Government has afforded to cleaning the air that we breathe to protect the health and well-being of the people we serve. The clean air strategy describes how we will enhance and protect the quality of the air that we breathe and realise the full environmental...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...GRA, conference taking place today in Westport. I welcome the GRA to County Mayo for its annual conference. It is good to see that the theme and objective of the event is to say it is a job worth protecting and I support gardaí in their work in that regard. Many issues have been highlighted with An Garda. From my conversations with local gardaí in County Mayo, there is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: It is important that we have a sense of that. The Minister has outlined her intention to bring forward primary legislation, but a bit like the general data protection regulation, GDPR, ultimately until primary legislation is needed and after that point, the regulation stands. It is legally enforceable and has direct legal effect. That is important. It will be in 2026. I thank the...