Results 1-20 of 76 for data protection speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Consultancy Contracts Expenditure (6 Sep 2019)

Joe McHugh: My Department is committed to protecting the rights and privacy of individuals in accordance with both European Union and Irish data protection legislation. As part of this commitment my Department has proactively supported training and awareness of both key staff and the wider Department. Beginning prior to the implementation date of 25thMay 2018, my Department undertook a “GDPR...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (19 Dec 2018)

Joe McHugh: As a centralised national service, SUSI implements a process through which student grant applicants and other parties to their application can consent to the sharing of their personal data with each other and with third parties, including public representatives, for the purpose of responding to queries submitted on behalf of applicants and parties to applications. This process seeks to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (14 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: As a centralised national service, SUSI implements a process through which student grant applicants and other parties to their application can consent to the sharing of their personal data with each other and with third parties, including public representatives, for the purpose of responding to queries submitted on behalf of applicants and parties to applications. This process seeks to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Sharing Arrangements (10 Dec 2019)

Joe McHugh: As a controller of personal data, my Department maintains a number of data sharing agreements with other Government Departments and other public bodies but has no data sharing agreements with non-public bodies. As required by article 28 of the General Data Protection Regulation, my Department does include certain data processing requirements in contracts where its service providers are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Postcode Implementation (11 Dec 2014)

Joe McHugh: I acknowledge that a number of concerns were raised in the past. There always will be issues with a new system but with regard to the Data Protection Commissioner, as part of the Department's approach to the introduction of Eircodes, communications between the two have addressed the implementation, dissemination and commercialisation of Eircodes to ensure adherence to all pertinent data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance Data (14 Feb 2019)

Joe McHugh: Under GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, ethnicity is considered a special category of personal data and is subject to additional protections. Therefore information on pupil ethnicity can only be collected and reported on a voluntary basis, with the explicit consent of a pupil's parent(s) or guardian(s). My Department is engaging with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commissions of Inquiry (12 Mar 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...both at the time the General Scheme of the Bill was finalised in early 2015 and more recently when the text of the Bill was approved for publication. Neither the Information Commissioner nor the Data Protection Commissioner was consulted directly by my officials as part of that process as that would be a matter for the relevant departments. However I can confirm that informal discussions...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cyber Security Protocols (6 Sep 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...hold qualifications and attend relevant ICT training courses.  A risk register is maintained of ICT risks and security breaches are handled as part of the Incident Management process and in accordance with data breach guidance from the Data Protection Unit within the Department.  Risks are continuously logged in the risk register and the risks are analysed as part of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (13 May 2020)

Joe McHugh: Responsibility for the School Meals Programme lies with my colleague the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has indicated that an application for funding under the School Meals Programme was received from the school but was declined by that Department because priority for new applications is given to schools which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (10 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: ...and out of respect to the victims who came forward. The legislation under which the three bodies in question currently operate restricts the application of the provisions of the Freedom of Information Acts and the Data Protection Act. The Retention of Records Bill provides for the continuation of that dis-application in the case of the Freedom of Information Act. If the Bill is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (2 Apr 2019)

Joe McHugh: I propose to take Questions Nos. 192, 193 and 196 together. In order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas. My Department uses a Geographical Information System (GIS) to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise. The GIS uses data from a range of sources,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (6 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: Details of the total amounts paid to retired Department inspectors for the years 2013-2017 inclusive are set out in the table below having regard to data protection legislation. Information in relation to these engagements is compiled annually in respect of the previous year. The data in respect of 2018 will be available in early 2019. The retired inspectors were engaged to perform a variety...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (22 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: ....  The information required for their payment is provided by the managerial authority on standardised forms submitted to my Department. The main purpose for which my Department requires the personal data provided is the correct payment of the salary. It is also required for the correct payment of pension at retirement. Under the terms of the General Data Protection...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Nov 2018)

Joe McHugh: ...information required for their payment is provided by the managerial authority on standardised forms submitted to my Department. The main purpose for which my Department requires the personal data provided is the correct payment of the salary. It is also required for the correct payment of pension at retirement. Under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation , the...

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Joe McHugh: ...9, motion re parliamentary questions rota swap between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, to be taken without debate; and No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 181, motion re fodder crisis, selected by Fianna Fáil. Wednesday's business shall be expressions of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fisheries Protection (2 Dec 2014)

Joe McHugh: ...in any operational year. As is the case with all new counter installations, a research programme, over a number of years will be required to estimate the level of the partial count before the data can be reliably used as a direct index of returning salmon population. In line with the statutory protection and conservation imperatives, it is long-standing IFI policy not to make verified...

Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (13 Dec 2007)

Joe McHugh: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has expressed his concern to the Data Protection Commissioner on a recent report in relation to the disposal of records of clients from a law centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34574/07]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (23 Sep 2015)

Joe McHugh: Inland Fisheries Ireland maintain the majority of fish counters in place on migratory salmonid rivers and, in addition to downloading raw data, undertake a detailed verification of the counts and confirm the verified counts before making them publically available. IFI produces an Annual Fish Counter Report which details the relevant verified annual runs of salmon in the rivers where such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Online Safety (3 Jun 2020)

Joe McHugh: ...included the topic of staying safe in the distance learning environment and reminded schools of the continued need to implement and monitor their school policies particularly in areas such as Child Protection, Data Protection, Student/Pupil/Teacher Wellbeing and policies relating to the safe and ethical use of digital technologies.  Links to the range of curricular and other supports...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (24 Mar 2015)

Joe McHugh: Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), the State Body with responsibility for the protection, conservation and management of the inland fisheries resource, was established by the Inland Fisheries Act 2010. The information requested predates the establishment of IFI, and therefore the declared catch details for eels in the period in question were reported separately to each of the then 7 Regional...