Results 1-20 of 25 for data protection speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and especially young drivers, at risk. Almost half of Ireland's road deaths this year have involved people under 30 years of age who now account for 41% of all traffic fatalities. This is clear data and we should be seeing impactful solutions in both resourcing and personnel from the Government. For instance, the latest figures state there are 627 members of the Garda road policing...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...there have been a good few initiatives, mostly from EU level, in recent years that made some headway. I think, for example, of the EU directive on preventing and combating human trafficking and protecting its victims, which was debated in the House this time last year and which received unanimous support. I expect this proposal will receive the same. It is an area my Labour Party...

Transfer of Passenger Name Record Data: Motions (14 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: These three motions have been brought forward by the Government to facilitate negotiations to extend the exchange of passenger name record data between different countries to prevent, detect and investigate serious crime. Back in 2016, an EU-wide system among member states was established by directive as an important tool to help improve the EU's internal security. Norway, Iceland and...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the following: “(4) Nothing in or under this Act, including a designation under this section, of itself operates to constitute a service provider to be a public body within the meaning of the Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019.”. This is a similar amendment around data protection. I presume the Minister will give us a similar answer. It relates to data protection...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...page 31, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(5) Nothing in this section authorises— (a) a service provider, (b) the Agency, or (c) the Minister, to process personal data (within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016) for purposes that are not compatible with the purposes for which the...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (28 Jun 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..."information the disclosure of which could, in the opinion of the Commission, reasonably be expected to prejudice the effectiveness of the performance of a relevant function". Effectively, the Data Protection Commission, DPC, would be entitled to self-certify which of its own processes cannot be revealed by complainants and other parties. Transparency is supposed to be the whole point of...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...spoken about for a long time. The Government is moving on it and we are legislating for it, which is a positive. We have seen across the world, where body cams on police officers have been used, they have protected police officers, in addition to communities that previously were not believed regarding over-aggressive police forces and the interaction between police forces and their...

Extension of Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Act as a permanent solution. However, there is still sufficient justification for us to extend the provisions of Act for six months as outlined in the motion. According to the Government's Covid-19 data hub, there were 32 deaths from Covid-19 reported last week, there was a test positivity rate of 12%, there were 316 confirmed cases in hospitals and there were 11 confirmed cases in ICUs....

Screening of Third Country Transactions Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I join others in congratulating the Minister of State on his recent appointment. We look forward to working closely with him in the coming period. This Bill is about protection of the security or public order of the State. In a globalised world with complex technologies and equally complex supply chains it is clear that our day-to-day lives are acutely vulnerable to the malign actions of...

Autism Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...body must publish a progress report on a three-yearly basis, which gives updates on implementation of the strategy. Our Bill states that the strategy must provide for public service providers to set up data collection systems to identify and record the number of persons within their client bases who have autism and to calculate current and future needs for services. As was outlined...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (31 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 393. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department consulted the Data Protection Commission at any stage during the preparation for the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018, as required by Article 36 (4) of GDPR; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27571/22]

Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2020 Report: Motion (19 May 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of the Act does violence and injustice to that philosophy. I want to ask the Minister a number of questions. It has been suggested to me that the entirety of the Act should possibly have been directed to the Data Protection Commissioner because it potentially comes under section 36 of the GDPR Act. The Minister might speak to that again at a later point or forward me her Department's...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Admissions (23 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...school and try to engage with the school in whatever way they can, but they tell me they are on different waiting lists for different schools. I am also told there can sometimes be a general data protection regulation, GDPR, issue with sharing data about who is on which list. A number of parents may have their children on a number of different lists. It is not always obvious how many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...are the schools that like to present themselves as being academically superior and high on school league tables. There is an appalling journalistic insistence on throwing out completely untested data on schools; even the Department of Education does not like it and will not produce it under freedom of information. So who is the system benefiting? I am interested in what the witnesses...

Monitoring Adequate Housing in Ireland: Statements (4 Nov 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of State's colleagues might say. Private renters and those renting from local authorities are at a significantly higher rates of poverty than owner occupiers. This highlights the need for greater protections for tenants and why so many of those entering homelessness are coming from the private rental sector. Inadequate housing and poor housing quality is inevitably associated with...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Telecommunications Services (21 Sep 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action his Department has taken to investigate the impact of scam calls based on age; if his Department has data on whether reliance on telephony makes older persons more susceptible to scam calls; the action being taken by his Department to protect older persons from scam calls; and if he will make a statement on...

Seanad: Data Protection Bill 2018: Second Stage (8 Feb 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and will spend whatever money they can to stay ahead of the game.The danger is not only that privacy rights, which are central to what we are trying to achieve, will be lost but also that the protection of children will be undermined. We are in a dangerous area and I expect the legislation will touch on everything we do from here onwards in all spheres, whether transport, education,...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of paramount importance. However, it is equally clear that imprisonment is only part of the solution. Locking people up and forgetting about them is not an effective way to reduce re-offending or protect our communities and reduce victimisation. The review highlighted the fact that a large proportion of domestic burglaries are committed by serial offenders. Senators will be aware that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (9 Jul 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and z-drug. The fact that this often occurs in the context of multiple substance use is a particularly worrying trend. Unfortunately, because of the hidden nature of heroin use, we do not have good data on its usage in Ireland. We know that there are in the region of 9,800 people in methadone maintenance treatment, which is an indicator of the extent of the problem. The NACDA is...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Howlin, included Irish Water under FOI legislation. The Water Services Act 2014 then included the requirement that any proposal to change the ownership status of Irish Water would first be put to the people. Protecting the interest of customers of Irish Water has been a high priority for the Government throughout the water reform process. To ensure this protection, the 2014 Act...