Results 1-20 of 54 for data protection speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...say when to sell and when not to. People adapt. That is the easiest part of the challenge. It is getting all the technology, getting acceptance of the system, and getting over all these general data protection regulation, GDPR, problems. I have a final question. Particularly now, and there is always a downside to everything, bike hire has become a major issue on islands, including...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Safe Deposits Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...thought the banks would like to get rid of some of these things and free up space, but that is a different issue and it is one for the banks. If the banks are happy that way, that is fine. On data protection and privacy rights, the provision for starting with the oldest boxes was a conscious decision for several strategic reasons, one of which is that it is less likely an owner would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Safe Deposits Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: It is not a question but a comment. Obviously data protection is an issue, but the State has been publishing records such as census records from 1911. Therefore, there is a precedent for opening very old records. That is why the date issue is key. Obviously they are not going to open up census records beyond a certain date. The appropriate date was debated in Cabinet and the Oireachtas....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pension and Social Protection Related Issues: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...rules more. On the case that my good colleague raised, namely, that of the living wage, the matter is being addressed in a very tentative way in one Department. It is not in the Department of Social Protection at all. It kicked the matter to touch because it saw the implication of a living wage for everybody and so on. It should be achieved in the future. Having a living wage, with...

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...alternative sums. This is where I really run into trouble. There has been no mention of auto-enrolment here. I keep tabling parliamentary questions and for some reason the Department of Social Protection does not want to give us the data. Basically auto-enrolment is coming in the next year or two, according to the Government. With auto-enrolment, the employer, the employee and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme (25 Mar 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason rural social scheme supervisors are being requested to gather personal information from scheme participants as part of the annual review of means of participants in the scheme; if discussions have taken place with the Data Protection Commissioner on whether such an arrangement is satisfactory under the GDPR; and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...were water-borne diseases. Thankfully, we eliminated those more or less in the western world. That is lifestyle rather than pure medicine. We are still bad at housing. We are still bad at unemployment. There is good data in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection on the effect of unemployment.

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Further Revised) (3 Apr 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: When a Deputy tables a parliamentary question about an individual to the Department of Employment and Social Protection, the Department replies because there is a presumption in law that, provided the Deputy has evidence to show he or she is acting on behalf of the individual in question, we can, under data protection, be given an answer because we are elected public representatives. The...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (14 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...pre-printed form 12, form 11 or form 11S in June, for example, Revenue will already know how much PAYE income that person has, or how much is being declared by employers. I can never understand why Revenue does not tell people it knows that. If it were to provide the relevant figures, people could compare them to the figures on their P60s. Revenue already knows how much social welfare...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...this information on the P35. That form is to become redundant but the authorities will still know the details. They will actually know by the week. Also known is the social welfare income one has because there is data-matching. I often wonder why the authorities cannot give the individual the relevant information on the form and state that if he or she is happy with it, he or she does...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Beidh deich nóiméad an duine againn. I fully support my colleague in what he said about the Department of Social Protection and Revenue. People are saying it has to be done online. I do not know whether many Deputies carried back with them the experiences of their clinics and try to apply it in the world of bureaucracy up here. It seems to me there are zealots in the system who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2017)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...set aside enough land from the NHA to build the road to An Spidéal on the line that the people of Connemara want? Part of the way out of An Spidéal is all in a national heritage area rather than a special protection area. If the legislation was amended would there be any ecological reason to refuse it and put in place some other compensatory measure to allow that road to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...who is in receipt of jobseeker's allowance, which is a means-tested payment. Anyone who understands the system knows there is a difference between the thoroughness of the Department of Social Protection in checking that one is not earning money elsewhere and that of the tax man. The Department of Social Protection carries out way more checks than those carried out in respect of a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (20 Oct 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...to publish the report received by him from the Property Registration Authority on the extent of seaweed rights; the information received that cannot be published because of obligations under the data protection legislation in view of the fact that all land registry folios are open to inspection by the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31442/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Data (26 Jan 2016)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 212. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expenditure incurred in 2015 on the beef data and genomics programme, rural environment protection scheme, agri-environment option scheme, green low-carbon agri-environment scheme, locally-led environmental schemes, organic farming schemes, land mobility, targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, horticulture industry, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector: Irish Farmers Association (21 Apr 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...local level, which I would heartily support. What is going on at the moment in this regard amounts to exploitation. In addition, Mr. Foley would like to see consumer law tightened up, not only to protect consumers but also producers, many of which are small operators. Will he elaborate on the practical mechanisms that might be employed in this regard? There is a major challenge here...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (12 Mar 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 63. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide, regarding jobseekers, benefit and allowance details for any recent period of the number of claimants; the number of claimants claiming for an adult dependant; if the status or category of adult dependant will be explained; if numbers or percentages of husband, wife, adult, child, sibling and other will be provided; if numbers...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... While I welcome the introduction of a grant for this purpose, I hope it is easy to access and covers the different types of farming. I was interested in the Minister's comments on the beef data and genomics programme. He will appreciate that I take the view that insufficient funding has been provided for the scheme, although I recognise that he has come a little way. I also agree...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Taxation Review: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...is to be expansion, because 18,000 out of 120,000 farmers are engaged in dairying, which is about 15%. I will home in on a few points. In respect of the 120,000 farmers, do the witnesses have any data between them regarding how many of them have a taxable income? I am not talking about a farm income. We must take into account the fact that in most cases, people look at their family...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bull Beef Sector: Discussion (4 Mar 2014)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Chairman, on a point of information, if the information is available from the Department's site to meat factories, then the Department is in breach of the data protection rules, not the meat factories. It is not unknown for the Data Protection Commissioner to make rulings that Government Departments are in breach of the Data Protection Act. The Department must focus on that issue...