Results 1-20 of 29 for data protection speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (26 Apr 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 711. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will liaise with the Minister for Social Protection with regard to putting legislative provisions in place specifically to grant authority to Passport Office office staff involved in the processing of passport applications, access to the General Registration Office data on births, deaths and marriages to verify information on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 629. To ask the Minister for Health if the weekly data collected and reported by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre on the epidemiology of Covid-19 outbreaks and clusters are accurate; if so, if they are taken into account by the National Public Health Emergency Team and the Government when considering restrictions and measures relevant to the control of the spread of Covid-19; if so,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Marc MacSharry: 630. To ask the Minister for Health if the epidemiological data on outbreaks and clusters as collected and published by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre are inaccurate and-or are not taken into account and followed by National Public Health Emergency Team and the Government in setting and implementing measures and restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19; and the tangible...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...the Pfizer trials, that there needed to be three or four weeks between the first and second injections, the UK, Israel and the United States went a different route, deciding on 12 weeks. Their data are based on many millions of people, much more than in a clinical trial, and they have adopted a 12-week approach. According to the Scottish data which were published the day before...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: The implications of this is that privilege under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, can be claimed in any case of non-compliance. As such, the public will not be entitled to know.

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...this to be misinterpreted as me being against forestry, but the people of County Leitrim matter and we must be cognisant of the needs of such areas. People have a right to light which needs to be protected. On sustainable farming methods, farmers are happy to get involved in forestry in areas which are not over-afforested. However, the payment or incentivisation method needs to be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Marc MacSharry: In that case, the Department appeals, the Data Protection Commission presents its case and the Department represents its case. We waste an awful lot of taxpayers' money in the meantime. Is that what will really happen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Let us say my company breaches the regulations and the Data Protection Commission writes to me saying I needed to do this, that and the other. Suppose that, as a private entity, I argue that the commission had misinterpreted the law and I will not do any of that. What would happen?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Marc MacSharry: When an entity does not accept the Data Protection Commission's findings and has a right of appeal to the courts, does that create additional work for the Data Protection Commission?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Marc MacSharry: There is ongoing litigation with State agencies on the basis that they did not accept the Data Protection Commission's findings.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Marc MacSharry: I do not mean costs that the Data Protection Commission can farm out. Can we get a handle of the amount of resources these cases are taking from the Data Protection Commission's core business, which ultimately is to continue with its work rather than getting held up in court? Regarding the State agencies-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (26 Sep 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Just that. I see an awful lot of taxpayers’ money about to be wasted in court. We legislated for the Data Protection Commission, DPC, to do a job. It has done it. We do not like the sound of it, however. The language used in the correspondence sent to the DPC suggested it was a State agency and should get with the programme. It suggested the Department is not happy with this and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...gathering outside the prison environment. As a result of the nature and content of these documents, which are here, I will today forward a copy to each of the Garda Commissioner and the Data Protection Commissioner as the relevant authorities. Naturally, this is a matter of major concern to me, as I assume it is to the Secretary General. The Chairman should stop me whenever my time is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: I remember the Wheatfield incident because it was publicly acknowledged. It was a tuck shop in the prison and it was the Data Protection Commissioner who came across it was it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...the need to introduce such a child tax credit or allowance, we could build towards it over time. The research carried out by my team and me included a detailed analysis of the cost of such a child tax credit or allowance with the use of excellent support by way of data provision from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which I would like to acknowledge. Our...

Public Accounts Committee: Garda Internal Audit Report on ICT Directorate Payments Process (31 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Will the general data protection regulation, GDPR, now make that even more difficult for the Garda or can the Garda access that information?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (1 Feb 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Are there any financial data protection risks in this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...ÁS-SOLAS, because I will refer back to Mr. Ó Foghlú's previous appearance here. The legislative mandate part of the accounts speaks of the code of governance, corporate health and safety, risk, data protection, protected disclosures and so on. As things have progressed, does Mr. O'Toole feel that the public and I could have confidence in the governance of his organisation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (31 May 2016)

Marc MacSharry: .... To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 60 to 74 of 18 May 2016 and the consequences of leaks from the National Asset Management Agency, if the agency notified the Data Protection Commissioner within two weeks of becoming aware of these leaks, in accordance with the personal data security breach code of practice, as approved by the commissioner under...