Results 1-20 of 168 for data protection speaker:Denis Naughten

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: 472. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the administration cost of each assistance and benefit scheme operated by her Department, where available in the most recent year for which data is available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16447/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2023: Department of Social Protection (18 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...engagement with the committee and we may need to change the terms of reference and the invite to the Department. The intention is not to try to reinvent the wheel, it is to try to elicit the data that will make this engagement far more constructive next year than it has been historically and, I hope, this will set the benchmark for other Departments and committees. In fairness, we would...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Autism Spectrum Disorder Bill 2017: Discussion (3 Oct 2023)

Denis Naughten: I will come in to make a couple of quick points. I take what Senator Flynn says about data collection. In 2023, Ireland is one of the biggest software exporters in the world but we have to do a census in respect of people with disabilities and their needs to know what is going on. There is something fundamentally wrong when we are still using technology from the last millennium to try to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: I thank Mr. Mulherin for his opening comments. I want to pick up on his last comment. I know this is slightly different within his Department from within the Department of Social Protection, but the latter produces a set of statistics on a quarterly and annual basis. That is going to be used initially by the committee in starting its engagement on the indicators. The reason I am saying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Rural and Community Development (12 Jul 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...to explore if she is aware of another indicator inside or outside the Department. This may be a conversation the committee also needs to have with the Central Statistics Office, CSO, to see what data might be available as a more effective indicator of what is happening on the ground. This is the point we are trying to make. In themselves, figures and numbers do not benefit the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (3 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...for the opening statement she read here this morning, but for the report the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has completed. This is an issue of huge interest to this committee both from a social protection perspective and a rural development perspective. Ms Keilthy highlighted in her opening statement the impact of energy poverty on urban versus rural households. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Creating Our Future Report: Science Foundation Ireland (3 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...on the scientific community and scientists to engage with the public, ensuring that they outline the potential benefits of scientific discovery to society as a whole. Scientific research data, whether large or small, and irrespective of discipline, should be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. This is an issue of equity on a global level. We as politicians working with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pay-related Jobseeker's Benefit Scheme: Discussion (19 Apr 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...motivated by the Covid pandemic and the initial illness that people have had, the longer term implication is not yet being addressed by the Department of Health, never mind the Department of Social Protection. Two weeks ago I published new poll data which shows that 10% of the adult population has now experienced long Covid symptoms after a period of initial infection. That has gone up...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (2 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: 277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider an independent review of the role and powers of the Data Protection Commission, and of how best to strengthen and reform the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10750/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...lives, affecting their ability to work and causing significant disability for some. Long Covid also has a significant impact on our workforce. It costs millions of euro in lost work and welfare. Data from the Department of Social Protection have shown that 0.8% of those who contracted Covid-19 and claimed the enhanced illness benefit payment were medically certified as being unfit to...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...individuals. That is not fair or right. I know healthcare workers have taken this up with the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, and that he has come back to the workers in correspondence advising that officials in the Department of Social Protection, who operate the national occupational injuries benefit scheme, said Covid-19 does not constitute a prescribed disease or illness as set out in...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ..., in Cork University Hospital the wait is 20 weeks and the wait in University Hospital Galway is 16 weeks after referral. Long Covid is costing at least €500 million in lost work and welfare alone. Data from the Department of Social Protection show that 0.81% of those who contracted Covid-19 and claimed the enhanced illness benefit payment were medically certified as being...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will look at both issues and come back on Report Stage. I accept the point the Minister has made regarding data protection but this Bill is about online safety. We are talking about cases where safe information can be provided to people online, yet records are being erased. I ask the Minister to look and see if there are any additional powers that the commission could have in this area...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...in this country. There is no legitimate reason the likes of Google should be allowed to remove those listings because it is an exploitation of EU privacy laws. There is provision with the general data protection regulation, GDPR, privacy laws to ensure that the public interest is protected. GDPR, in circumstances where a convicted sex offender looks to have the record of his or her...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...more generally? I welcome the provision in amendment No. 14 to allow a photograph of a convicted sex offender to be provided to a third party where it is necessary to identify that offender to protect either a vulnerable adult or child. I will not dwell on this, but I again highlight amendment No. 20, which is in my name. I do not think the convicted sex offender should be given...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “ ‘Act of 2018’ means the Data Protection Act 2018; ‘Act of 2019’ means the Parole Act 2019; ‘local district headquarters’ means the local district headquarters of the Garda Síochána which is closest to the place within the county where he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Data Protection (17 Feb 2022)

Denis Naughten: 87. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps which she is taking to restrict the right to be forgotten under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, by convicted sex offenders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8375/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Denis Naughten: I will take Mr. Taft up on that point. He made a valid point regarding the data from the Department of Social Protection and the committee will seek that information. To bring him back to a very important sentence in his evidence, he stated: Many workers, although not all, will wish to remain in their employment until their State pension becomes payable due to their continued ability to...