Results 1-20 of 203 for data protection speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Board (RTB) Rent Index is designed to measure developments in rental prices faced by those taking up new tenancies in the private rental sector and from Q2 2023 utilising Annual Registration data, existing tenancy rent price developments. The addition of the Existing Tenancies Index beginning in the Q2 2023 index, significantly strengthens the ability to understand the Private Rental...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Commission (20 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Acts require that local authorities carry out a check of each application made in relation to the electoral register. Where a PPSN is provided, the information is checked against identity data held by the Department of Social Protection. Local authorities have, and have always had, the power to seek any information or supporting documentation they require in pursuit of their statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...available for housing, with €5.1 billion in investment available in 2024 o deliver new homes. Supply continues to improve in our housing market. A range of indicators suggest this: The latest annual data on the number of Commencements Notices (residential construction starts) published on 18 January, 2024 show that almost 33,000 (32,801) new homes were commenced in 2023.The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...with conditions prohibiting bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to, a single purchaser. Despite suggestions that institutional investors are crowding out prospective owner-occupiers, official data indicates that institutional investors still make up an important but relatively small proportion of annual residential property purchases. While the Government will continue to keep this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) Rent Index is designed to measure developments in rental prices faced by those taking up new tenancies in the private rental sector and from Q2 2023 utilising Annual Registration data, existing tenancy rent price developments. The Rent Index report is the most accurate and authoritative rent report of its kind on the private rental sector in Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...with conditions prohibiting bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to, a single purchaser. Despite suggestions that institutional investors are crowding out prospective owner-occupiers, official data indicates that institutional investors still make up an important but relatively small proportion of annual residential property purchases. While the Government will continue to keep this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...homes with conditions prohibiting bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to, a single purchaser. Despite suggestions that institutional investors are crowding out prospective owner-occupiers, official data indicates that institutional investors still make up an important but relatively small proportion of annual residential property purchases. The Government will continue to keep this issue...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in the first nine months of 2023, an 8.9 per cent increase on the same period in 2022 and the highest number of completions recorded for the first three quarters of any year since the Central Statistics Office (CSO) data series began in 2011; — there are very positive signs that the uplift in new home delivery will be sustained in 2024 and over the coming years, with almost 33,000...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Personal Public Service Numbers (23 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...2022 added explicitly that this could include, in respect of a person’s own registration, a PPSN, date of birth and Eircode. The use of PPSNs allows the local authority to undertake an identity data cross-check via a secure link with the Department of Social Protection to confirm identity details provided. This checks that the name, date of birth, PPSN and nationality provided are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Research and Development (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...CABB Interreg project Cooperation Across Borders for Biodiversity (CABB) brings together six environmental organisations, including; BirdWatch Ireland, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Northern Ireland, RSPB Scotland, Butterfly Conservation, Northern Ireland Water and Moors for the Future. The CABB Project is supported by the European Union’s INTERREG...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department does not maintain a schedule of personal data sharing activities over the past 20 years to date. The information sought is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work. My Department shares personal data with other public bodies for a variety of reasons including where required by law, where relevant and necessary to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (17 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...called septic tanks, grant schemes available to householders. The purpose of these grants is to provide financial assistance to reduce the environmental impact from defective septic tanks and to protect human health. They are available to householders where a septic tank has been found to be defective following an inspection by the local authority or if located in a designated area of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Appointments to State Boards (14 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...stateboards.ie website. Although the information requested in the Question may be available as part of the original application and appointment processes for State board membership, under General Data Protection Regulation guidelines, my Department does not have access to this information once appointments have been made. The names of individuals currently serving on State Boards under the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...-stati stics. The spend on Mortgage to Rent cases, broke down by quarter, is available at: assets.gov.ie/99984/d10e5f7c-a0f5-40ab-9ccf-0559e22f3afa.xls x. My Department is currently compiling spend data for Q3 2023 and this information will be available in the coming weeks at this location. My Department, in conjunction with the Housing Agency is currently running an Expressions of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Tenancies Board (RTB) Rent Index is designed to measure developments in rental prices faced by those taking up new tenancies in the private rental sector and for the first time utilising Annual Registration data, existing tenancy rent price developments. The Rent Index report is the most accurate and authoritative rent report of its kind on the private rental sector in Ireland. Compared to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Maximum rent limits for HAP were set for each housing authority area in 2016 in conjunction with the Department of Social Protection (DSP). In reviewing the rent limits, my Department worked closely with DSP and monitored data gathered from the Residential Tenancies Board and the HAP Shared Services Centre. A key principle of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) is that eligible...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Septic Tanks (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 51 and 79 together. According to the latest census data available there are almost 500,000 domestic waste water treatment systems (DWWTS), mostly septic tanks, in Ireland. Under the Water Services Acts 2007 and 2012, it is the responsibility of the owners to ensure that their DWWTS is fit for purpose, operational and kept in good order. Owners of septic tanks...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) as the Department with policy responsibility, is also leading on a project to secure the provision of modular homes to accommodate Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection from the Ukraine. For 2023, the Government has agreed that there will be increased provision for social housing acquisitions and my Department will fund...

Renters: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...continued significant capital investment, including Cost Rental, to accelerate delivery of housing for the private and social rental sectors and stabilising rents; — that building on the enhanced tenancy protections introduced by this Government, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is close to concluding a comprehensive review of the private rental sector,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (28 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...videos were shared with local authorities, members of the Oireachtas, student unions, organisations affiliated to the National Youth Council and a range of other organisations including those working with international protection applicants such as the Immigrant Council for Ireland, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and the Irish Refugee Council.Hard copy posters were designed, printed...