Results 1-20 of 137 for data protection speaker:Seán Fleming

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Illegal Dumping (30 Apr 2024)

Seán Fleming: ...behalf of my colleague, Deputy Eamon Ryan, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications. The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, also has a clear role in this area due to the data protection issue. The Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 advanced a number of priority provisions identified in the waste action plan, including the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (16 Nov 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...to humanitarian need, ranking among the top twenty humanitarian donors. In 2022 we provided a record €297.8 million in humanitarian assistance. This year, Ireland has supported humanitarian assistance and protection in countries and regions such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, the Sahel and...

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Second Stage (8 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ..., Deputy Darragh O'Brien, I am happy to have the opportunity to introduce the Bill. The purpose of this Bill is to set out a system of controls on the abstraction and impoundment of water to protect our water environment and to ensure compliance with Ireland's responsibilities under the water framework directive. Article 11(3) of the directive requires member states to implement...

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Motion (8 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...co-operation between the EU and the UK. It is vital that we meet the highest standards possible when it comes to the investigation and prosecution of crimes and the ongoing transferring of PNR data helps to ensure that. This extension of the special arrangements currently in place in the TCA will allow the continued sharing of PNR data with the UK, which, in the absence of a decision to...

EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Motion (8 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...other part, regarding the extension of the interim period referred to in Article 552(11) of that Agreement during which the United Kingdom may derogate from the obligation to delete Passenger Name Record data of passengers after their departure from the United Kingdom, a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 21st November, 2022. I am speaking today on behalf of the...

Seanad: Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...of the board, I am open to correction but I believe there are 36 different policies that have to be cleared at board level. These range from regulatory matters to HR matters, staffing matters, the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and freedom of information. I am actually not sure about the freedom of information and GDPR rules. All of these policies have to come through the...

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...in relation to some businesses with high levels of footfall such as those in the hospitality, retail, tourism, voluntary and child-play sectors in terms of public and employer liability cover. Indeed, data from today's national claims information database report published by the Central Bank shows 60% of all business policies are under €1,000, while 92% are under €5,000....

Seanad: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...transparency, clarity and legal certainty in the insurance market. I will give a short overview of the Bill's main provisions. First, the Bill amends the Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Act 2018 to enable the Central Bank to collect information regarding deductions by insurers from claim settlements that relate to State supports.Building on the well-established...

Seanad: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...positive and accept the logic of the legislation. A big element of this issue relates to the recovery of deducted State supports. It has been rightly pointed out that in the Department of Social Protection, there is a scheme called the recovery of benefits and assistance scheme. It simply means that someone who is involved in an accident and gets disability payments for a period is not...

Seanad: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...of this Bill. The main proposal is the introduction of an interest rate cap on moneylending loans. The feedback from the public consultation on the issue was that the introduction of a cap would protect low-income households that avail of moneylender loans, reduce the cost of credit for customers of moneylender, reduce the number of customers in default and align Ireland with other EU...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Income Inequality (25 May 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...effect the Covid-19 pandemic has had on equality across the world. However, the range of supports the Government put in place in Ireland was extremely effective in stabilising people's incomes and protecting those most at risk. The Deputies spoke about the energy companies making profits. In Ireland, the main company making a profit is the ESB, which reinvests its profits in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (11 May 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...measure and it is important that it be seen in that context. I will make another point. The reason I looked at this at that stage was that I was conscious that, under the Department of Social Protection, other State payments may be relevant to insurance claims. There already are processes in place. We already had legislation in place dating back many years strictly to deal with what...

Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...State supports from insurance claim settlements; support the Central Bank's new regulations to ban price walking; provide clarity on certain provisions of the Consumer Insurance Contracts Act 2019; and protect existing Irish policyholders following the UK's departure from the EU by supporting the Central Bank's technical changes to the temporary run-off regime, TRR, for UK and...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to introduce the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill to Seanad Éireann. It is generally accepted that there is a need to improve the regulatory framework governing the provision of certain new types of finance to consumers. The Bill seeks to do that. Its primary objective is to provide that any firm which offers credit, hire...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...is going up. It will do this by reducing the cost of credit on new moneylending loans and by improving the regulatory framework to modernise the way providers operate. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has been supportive of the Bill and the benefits it brings for consumers. The Bill is the result of a detailed policy review within the Department of Finance, which...

Seanad: Credit Union Sector: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...that will assist boards of directors to focus on strategic development. The proposals have been greatly assisted by the research conducted by the CUAC on the role of directors. This is a great example of data-driven research and analysis which greatly informs the policy debate and leads to concrete proposals. The fourth objective is to improve members' services. The review takes...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...number of additional benefits for the operation of the CCR. These include access to PPS number validation tools operated by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which will help improve the accuracy of the processing of PPS data for CCR purposes, and that it will also provide for increased transparency in relation to the processing of PPS numbers for CCR purposes. It improves...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...Doherty’s amendment concerns BNPL credit products and it appears that its primary purpose is to cause a report to be produced by the Central Bank that would, having assembled and analysed the data sought, make recommendations to address the issued examined. Presumably the expectation is that, taking account of regulatory measures adopted elsewhere, there would be a recommendation...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Seán Fleming: ...months are 'base effects', the imbalance between global demand and supply that has emerged as economies re-opened, and increases in global energy prices; — that Budget 2022 contained a large range of measures to protect households from the rising cost of living, including a personal income tax package worth €520 million next year and a social welfare package of over...