Results 1-20 of 26 for data protection speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...that smiles on the destruction of innocent human life. That is why I have to challenge the Government when it has no evidence worth speaking of that suggests this legislation is in any way needed to protect people accessing services that are now legal. The constitutional and social justification for this legislation is absolutely threadbare. It is about crushing dissent, no more and no...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...to try to put ourselves into the heads and hearts of other people and defend with equal fervour their rights, privileges and preferences, having regard to the common good and the need to always protect the vulnerable as a higher value. I say that mindful there may be people, though hopefully not in this Chamber, who would take a bigoted view of the idea people might choose to pray in...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I can speak to them and, hopefully, we will get white smoke before it comes to the question of moving them. The amendments, such as amendment No. 8, would not allow searches of retained ANPR data to be carried out in respect of protests without the requirement of reasonable grounds to believe there is a significant threat to public safety or order. To allow otherwise could have a chilling...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...10: In page 11, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "(g) has received sufficient training to make them suitably qualified to use the relevant device, and after receiving sufficient data protection training so as to render them proficient in operating the device in accordance with legislation regulating the use of data, and (h) after a pilot scheme in respect of that device...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...or above that may be specified in the applicable code of practice having regard to the rank or grade of the member of Garda personnel making the application, or to the type or the duration of the retention of the ANPR data concerned, and (b) who is independent of the investigation, inquiry or the matters relating to the security of the State, as the case may be, to which the application...

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...court those who followed that case and took a strong view of privacy rights more or less said "We told you so", that they saw this coming and that the 2011 law, as it stood, envisaged a measure of data retention that simply was no longer acceptable under European law. I cannot speak for all the citizens of this country but I think many ordinary people will be concerned at the idea An...

Seanad: Carbon Policy: Motion (19 May 2022)

Rónán Mullen: I second the motion and commend Senator Keogan for bringing it forward. Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. The Minister is welcome. We all want the same thing in the sense that we want to protect our environment and reduce our carbon emissions, and we want to do right by the world and by future generations and the less fortunate and more vulnerable people of our world. However, it is vital...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Feb 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...on both sides of the abortion debate. I do not need to rehearse them here. One third of the electorate voted to recognise that an unborn child has a right to life and that this right should be protected by the law and society. That argument was lost, at least as far as numbers are concerned, but that cause will endure and see better days because the true human rights position is that we...

Seanad: Local Government (Use of CCTV in Prosecution of Offences) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Mar 2021)

Rónán Mullen: The data protection regime that has grown up over the past two decades is, generally speaking, a good thing. Like State regulation of any area, however, it has its downsides. The nature and scope of data protection obligations are complicated, to say the least. One downside is that GDPR is often invoked to deny citizens access to information to which they are entitled. We have all...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Rónán Mullen: -----and continuity in healthcare data. Supporters of the Bill will be familiar with the Guttmacher Institute, a think tank that is bankrolled by an organisation called Planned Parenthood, which is the largest and most profitable abortion business in the UK. Planned Parenthood made $100 million last year and its CEO is paid just shy of $1 million. Last year, representatives and affiliates...

Seanad: Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018: Second Stage (26 Sep 2018)

Rónán Mullen: ...the public good, as we heard when the Minister of State was speaking on the various sections. Perhaps even more of a minefield is the fact that we are in this age of Internet downloads, streaming, data mining, social media, and so on, all of which have really forced us to look again at how we should balance the rights of copyright holders with the realities of modern communications and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...abuse, along with psychological and physical abuse, is a significant problem affecting people aged over 65. It would be good to hear what the Minister intends to do to ensure older people are protected from the risks associated with financial abuse and how his Department is working with other State bodies to combat it. New data from census 2016, published in mid-June-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2016)

Rónán Mullen: .... When the Department of Education and Skills went to apply the FEMPI penalties to members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI, it did not consider that it was allowed, under data protection legislation, to access information about which teachers are members of the ASTI, even though the Department would have such information for payroll purposes to allow for the...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...to tell us what she knows and what she is going to do in regard to the necessary investigation of not just the activity of private investigators but also of officials in the Department of Social Protection. This is an important issue. It is yet another example, perhaps, of the creep that goes on where banks and officials of State collude to subtract from people's rights, in particular,...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Rónán Mullen: ...on pupils. School principals are being instructed to gather information, including details on pupils' religion and their PPS numbers, whereas previously only the school would hold that kind of data. The only State agency that collect information on citizens' religious beliefs previously was the Central Statistics Office, and this information was traditionally reserved for the census,...

Seanad: Direct Provision System: Motion (17 Sep 2014)

Rónán Mullen: ...That Seanad Éireann–- notes the continuing operation of the ‘Direct Provision’ régime applying to those persons seeking asylum in the State; - notes recent Reception and Integration Agency data which shows that the average length of application process for an individual asylum seeker is 48 months and that an average stay in the direct provision régime is...

Seanad: Passenger Name Records: Motion (23 May 2012)

Rónán Mullen: ...in these debates. The bottom line is that we live in a dangerous world and a test of reasonableness, a key principle, must apply. There are issues surrounding the collection and retention of data about people, but I am comforted by the detail of the agreement. First, people will have the right to access their data and have incorrect data corrected. They will also have a right to redress...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2010: Second Stage (15 Dec 2010)

Rónán Mullen: ...must be struck in social welfare legislation between the way we would like society to be and the reality of people's lives. That is why, for example, it is difficult to build social welfare and protection legislation in the context of cohabitation. On the one hand, a cursory study of social data will demonstrate that it is in the interests of the State and children to promote lifelong...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Oct 2010)

Rónán Mullen: ...resources to spend - so we can experience the growth for which we long. Although we face tough times it remains the case that we must apply rules fairly. This morning the Joint Committee on Social Protection had a debate about the application - I should say misapplication - of the habitual resident condition. In this context we are talking about the returning Irish who experience bad...

Seanad: End of Life Care: Motion (29 Sep 2010)

Rónán Mullen: ...community; - ensure that national guidelines are operational in all acute and community hospitals to address all key end-of-life care issues; - develop systems to enable effective gathering of data on deaths in hospitals; - ensure ongoing auditing of end-of-life care and the introduction of a system for review of deaths in hospitals in which bereaved families can participate; - ensure...