Results 1-20 of 33 for data protection speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Hospital. All of them said that these are the courses they have to study as cleaners: antimicrobial resistance and infection control hand hygiene; dignity at work; fundamentals of the general data protection directive; chemical safety in the workplace; putting on and taking off PPE in acute healthcare; introduction to children's first; manual handling and cybersecurity awareness, to name...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...should not entail centralising power in the hands of the Minister. Rather, it should be about ensuring genuine independence and genuinely having a broad spectrum of stakeholders, experts and people to protect the public interest and ensure sustainable development. It should also be about ensuring all these matters are adjudicated fairly and objectively according to the law. What the...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of people will be worse off in the next year than they were last year. That is the reality. Consider the €12 increase in pensions and social welfare payments against what would be necessary to protect people just against the rising costs of living, and based on the real level of inflation, which is about €27 per week. This would not be gaining anything, it would be not to...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to a large extent, but have not found their way into the Bill. The Bill should be about accessing the file, the whole file and nothing but the file, something that is required under the general data protection regulation, GDPR. People should have access to all information relevant to them, including their history, their heritage, the history of their care and any files, administrative...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (1 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...enactment (of this legislation), the Minister shall commence and carry out a review of the existing NMPF to— (a) review its compliance with the MSP Directive, (b) provide for interim protections for the marine environment, and (c) in respect of the inclusion of relevant projects in the existing NMPF— (i) to specifically review the compatibility of the inclusion of...

Forestry Sector: Motion (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., a big part of the problem is that we need to change the mandate of the State forestry company. In the past week, I discovered that while the Minister was in Glasgow and the Taoiseach was saying we are going to protect the trees and take climate action, the State forestry company was trying to sell off a forest in Enniskerry, just as it tried to do in 2013 with the entire forest estate....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Data Protection (27 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 494. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will avail herself of the opportunity presented by sections 42 and 44 of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 to introduce data protection exemptions for archiving purposes in the public interest and for...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... When will we get all these vaccines? There is massive pharmaceutical capacity in this country. Is there an issue with us having access to the technology, once it is available, and all the data? I ask the Government to support the proposals that have been brought forward, to vote accordingly at the WTO and to raise it in the European Union. All the normal mechanisms through which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is going to work, a number of key things have to happen. First, the profit motive has to be removed completely from the roll-out. This means that intellectual property and patent rights, which protect the technology for the vaccine in order that those companies can make a profit, have to be waived. I note that the Government intends to give indemnity to the pharmaceutical companies and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the data protection unit in his Department. [35169/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Data Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...relating to survivors, I have been inundated with contacts from survivors who are particularly concerned about the issue of industrial schools. One thing that I did not know was that the data in the archive for the industrial schools was outsourced and is in the possession of an American company. The survivors I talked to expressed great concern about that fact and went on to say that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... They want to determine the narrative about their lives and histories. They want to have a real stake and involvement in how that archive is operated. Even now, after the admission following the Data Protection Commissioner's intervention in the debate, the Taoiseach or the Minister said that the right to people's information and history is not absolute. That is worrying. The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if applicants for jobseeker’s payments are required to provide full credit card and debit card details as they appear on the card; and if so, the reason this information is necessary; if this is with the permission of the financial institutions, including banks and credit unions, with regard to their protection of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Protection (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if data collected by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, on BER forms in respect of water usage will not be passed on to other authorities such as Irish Water and that such data shall be protected in line with GDPR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41614/19]

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Whether he is guilty will be adjudicated on by the courts. I am simply pointing out that that level of control and wealth gives people that access. Will the legislation we are bringing forward to protect data, in this case emails, if people are found guilty of the very serious charges levelled against Mr. Denis O'Brien, result in the police being sent for or will there be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (28 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on whether her Department should not only acknowledge but offer an apology to a person (details supplied) after the Data Commissioner has found that her Department failed in its duty of care to protect information and personal data that it held on the person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50519/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Data Protection Commissioner will be more vigilant than in the past regarding companies that use personal data for commercial purposes without consent, specifically taking into account the new regulatory context opened by the General Data Protection Regulation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Central Statistics Office Reports (6 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the quality of life issues facing young persons that have come to light from the Central Statistics Office data 2013. [22495/16]

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...we will now be the only country in Europe that has a national postcode system with individualised addresses. We are going from one extreme to the other. Already a number of people, including the Data Protection Commissioner, have raised concerns about data protection and privacy issues. I share those concerns. It all smacks a little too much of Big Brother. There will be a database...