Results 1-20 of 25 for data protection speaker:John McGuinness

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: The Minister of State takes an interest in the number of Ukrainian individuals and families who are here. The same level of information on international protection applicants should be available to the Government, including on how they arrived, whether they arrived with or without passports or paperwork and the number of men, women and children, and families. That is a huge piece of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Office of the Ombudsman) Regulations 2022 (6 Apr 2022)

John McGuinness: Our business today is to consider the motion relating to the Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Office of the Ombudsman) Regulations 2022. No. 6, the minutes of the joint committee meeting on 30 March 2022 were agreed at the private session. Before we begin, members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (6 Apr 2022)

John McGuinness: ...101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following regulations: Data Protection Act 2018 Section 60(6) (Office of the Ombudsman) Regulations 2022, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann in draft form on 11 March 2022. In accordance with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60 (6)) (Central Bank of Ireland) Regulation 2019: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Oct 2019)

John McGuinness: In line with the order of the House, we have now considered the Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60 (6)) (Central Bank of Ireland) Regulation 2019 and we will inform the Dáil accordingly. Is that agreed? Agreed. The meeting is now adjourned-----

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

John McGuinness: ...what they have about their customers. When Ulster Bank wrote to the customer it disclosed information on at least half a dozen other customers not associated with this. Mr. Stanley was asked about data protection earlier. This is a data protection issue, it is obviously a customer issue and is an issue in which I asked the bank to intervene. It is still ongoing. The bank is still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (18 May 2017)

John McGuinness: I do not question that Mr. Carroll wants to get this right but take the example he has given where the data protection officer reports to the highest level. The risk managers in banks have legal obligations. They report to the highest level in the banks and thereafter to the Central Bank. If they had all been doing their jobs, we would not have had the crash. It is fine to define it in...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

John McGuinness: ...believe is important is one I raised this morning with the Chief Whip and Minister of State, Deputy Regina Doherty, because she is responsible for the CSO Vote. The CSO should be involved in the collection of data on insurance because it is an independent and respected organisation with the capability to collect the data necessary and to make it available to the Irish market and also to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

John McGuinness: That is not the question. The question is whether the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, knew that there was little or no movement in the market and that companies were actually leaving it. As an authority, should the CCPC not have been proactive in alerting the legislators of this House to the difficulty, or should it not at least have brought in Insurance Ireland to ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Sep 2016)

John McGuinness: Do you think there is a data protection issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (8 Sep 2016)

John McGuinness: ...What is so complex about the market in Ireland that allows the companies to say it is very difficult? Whenever anyone wants to get away from a problem, even in these Houses, he or she will mention data protection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State (7 Sep 2016)

John McGuinness: ...legislative action - it needs to do more than arrange hearings, etc. - it will force the vested interests to see that the game is up and that this House is intent on doing its business. Neither data protection nor anything else should get in the way of having an industry that is capable of dealing with the claims and so on that come before it. There is a need for certainty about the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013 (28 May 2015)

John McGuinness: ...in a Bill, has the Department carried out an assessment of whether it will require additional staff or powers to carry out this function? How will it determine what its power are in terms of data protection and so forth?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

John McGuinness: We have now received a response from the public bodies that provided funding to Rehab. In summary, the position of the public bodies concerned is that, other than where a data protection provision applies or the information is deemed commercially sensitive, or where a legal arrangement that contains a confidentiality clause has been entered into, there is no impediment, legal or otherwise,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 May 2014)

John McGuinness: ...committee yesterday. We have now received a response from all of the public bodies which provide funding to Rehab. In summary, the position of the public bodies concerned is that other than where data protection provision applies, the information is deemed commercially sensitive or a legal arrangement has been entered into which contains confidentiality clauses, they see no impediment,...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: ...that. That brings me to the issue in respect of Mr. Flannery and Ms Kerins. Substantial questions need to be answered in the context of the work of the Public Accounts Committee. I recognise the data protection issues in respect of their retirement packages and so on, and indeed in relation to the settlement reached with the individual who dealt with the coffins issue. That information...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: (Resumed) Rehab Group (10 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: The HSE would understand that because it is familiar with data protection. In fact, on the last occasion when the HSE appeared before us, a representative quoted the legislation to us. Why would Mr. Poole consider it necessary, therefore, to specifically instruct the HSE not to disclose the information to the Committee of Public Accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John McGuinness: ...type of material as that referred to by Assistant Commissioner O'Mahoney. We set out that material yesterday at a private meeting and issued it to members, redacted and fully compliant with the Data Protection Acts. The Commissioner is quite welcome to a copy of that information.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014)

John McGuinness: ...or number - I forget which it is - and an indication as to which member of the Garda would have taken the action to remove the penalty points. However, one of the whistleblowers, respecting the data protection provisions and leading us to this point, provided us with the information which told us, for example, that a certain number of penalty points were struck out for a particular...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Jan 2014)

John McGuinness: ...University Hospital, and contains further information requested at PAC meeting of 19 November 2013. It will be noted and published. Item 3A.6 is correspondence dated 19 December 2013 from Mr. Billy Hawkes, Data Protection Commissioner, regarding a response to the letter from the clerk to the committee dated 18 December 2013 regarding information supplied by a whistleblower, which is to...

Public Accounts Committee: Section 38 - Agencies Remuneration (11 Dec 2013)

John McGuinness: Yes. It is a data protection issue.