Results 1-20 of 67 for data protection speaker:Pearse Doherty

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Data Protection Commissioner and the relevant Acts deal with a different set of scenarios. They deal with data, of which financial data are obviously a part. These data were dealt with in the legislation at a time when this register was not being conceived. I agree with the Minister of State that the Data Protection Commissioner is the best independent person to adjudicate on these...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 16 April, 2013, if she will make available the file of data received from the Private Residential Tenancies Board, data which she says does not give rise to data protection implications, but which presumably provides addresses, details of accommodation and rent costs. [20029/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Aid Investigations (13 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...owed. It would be laughable were it not so serious. Many areas could do with a touch of that €14 billion, on which the Government is spending millions of euro of our money to ensure we never get. The Data Protection Commissioner and the Information Commissioner have laid bare the Minister's deception. There are no rules that would prevent him from releasing the information he is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Ulster Bank (1 Feb 2018)

Pearse Doherty: .... They have contacted Ulster Bank. If the bank's chief executive officer, CEO, was present, he could actually respond because they have written personally to him time and again in cases where the data packs are not being provided. The customers have raised this with the Data Protection Commissioner. Has the Data Protection Commissioner contacted Ulster Bank regarding the bank's failure...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...in the areas of transport, passports, and many others. We have heard of the willingness to spend public money on promoting that idea. The Minister is, however, in a sticky situation. The Data Protection Commissioner has expressed in three of her main findings that there was no legal basis for persons to be required to obtain a public services card in order to transact with a public body...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm in each of 2010, 2011,2012 and to date in 2013, the number of possible breaches of data protection laws that have been reported by the National Asset Management Agency to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. [24101/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 136 and 144 on 21 March 2013, in which she stated she had obtained data from the Private Residential Tenancies Board including a snapshot of the PRTB’s database which stores all annual rental values and relevant addresses, if she will confirm the way accessing such information was permitted in the context...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection Commissioner (18 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the penalties that can be imposed on a company for falsely informing clients that a data breach of their personal data had been reported to the Data Protection Commissioner when it had not been reported at the time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18105/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Protection (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Data Protection Commissioner investigation of the alleged unauthorised removal of confidential data by a former employee of the National Assets Management Agency. [10649/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: State Aid Investigations (13 Nov 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The DPC has provided information on firms as well as individual barristers. That is the key point here. That information was provided after GDPR came into effect under the Data Protection Commissioner, who is an expert on matters of GDPR and data protection. The granular detail I requested is not being provided, and I ask the Minister to re-examine that request. He claims that other...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Pearse Doherty: .... The identification of an insurance undertaking is appropriate in certain circumstances. I accept that as a result of the blanket deletion proposed in the amendment, it would also delete the protection for individuals, which is not its aim. I will, therefore, examine the issue further on Report Stage. We have discussed the issue of “best endeavours” in the context of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Civil Service Code of Conduct (5 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the safeguards that exist within the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to prevent conflicts of interest when employees of the Office move to related positions in the private sector. [5065/13]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Will anybody with information held on the register be able to apply to the Data Protection Commissioner in the case of a dispute?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. Will the ruling of the Data Protection Commissioner be adhered to by the Central Bank?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am just absorbing what the Minister of State as saying. The Data Protection Commissioner will capture the vast majority of cases-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Health if calls to the medical review section are recorded; the reason callers are not notified of this; his views on whether this practice is in line with the data protection rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (6 Sep 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...the challenges created by the establishment of the register of personal injuries actions in accordance with section 30 of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004; the impact of same on GDPR and other data protection law; and the way in which it could be overcome. [35353/19]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Areas of Conservation Management (31 Mar 2015)

Pearse Doherty: 731. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when data was last gathered on the corncrake species in the Meenlaragh to Falcarragh special protection area in County Donegal; the number of reported sightings of the bird in the area according to these latest findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13332/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm that the National Asset Management Agency has contacted the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner about the release of loan information, the date on which NAMA contacted the ODPC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Protection (9 Apr 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...some local authorities of seeking information from private refuse companies of the details of persons registered with them for the stated purpose of combatting fly tipping is in line with General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, legislation; and the rights of persons seeking to purchase bin labels in this regard. [16048/19]