Results 1-20 of 52 for data protection speaker:Gerald Nash

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...did because it speaks to some observations I was going to make with regard to the question of adequacy of core weekly payments and our system more generally. We have to start looking at our social protection system through the lens of adequacy rather than simply a non-evidence-based way of generating what the rates might be every year. I have said this before in a range of different...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...to be the global leader. I also welcome this Bill. The Labour Party will support its transition through the stages to ensure it is enforced by 17 February. In much the same way that the general data protection regulation, GDPR, led the way in privacy rights, the Digital Services Act leads the way in social and market responsibility in online spaces. ComReg called the Digital Services...

Competition and Consumer Protection (Unfair Prices) Bill 2023: First Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Gerald Nash: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to enable and assist the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission better to perform its functions in relation to protecting consumers from abuse by undertakings of a dominant position by imposing unfair purchase prices, for that purpose to amend the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014, and to provide for...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...electoral division outside all the RPZs in County Louth, even though every single surrounding town and village lies within such a zone. While renters across Europe enjoy much greater security of tenure and protection against huge rent hikes, Irish people in our rental sector are at risk. The actions of the Government have objectively left them at even greater risk. On the supply side,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2023)

Gerald Nash: ...that rising profits by big businesses, which are keeping prices high and wages low, account for half of all inflation pressure. This is extraordinary. It is happening with absolute impunity. CSO data published yesterday show that Irish companies are reporting record-breaking profits for 2022. Profits are a good thing. They are a healthy thing in a dynamic economy, but super-normal...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...committed, many of those who rely upon the State will receive significant once-off cash support to help them through to the end of the year. A lump sum and double payments are a good way of using our social protection system to target money where it is needed most. However, when these once-off measures are gone, they are gone. In early January, when the sugar rush wears off, budget 2023...

Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...Yet, the five-year frequency in my view is far too long, given the nature of lobbying, the way in which it is changing and the different ways in which people can access public representatives and data protection officers more generally these days. I ask the Minister to reflect on that. Broadly speaking, the Labour Party supports this legislation. It is a timely set of propositions to...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (4 May 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...subsidy schemes”). (2) The report under subsection (1) shall include reports on— (a) the performance by the Minister of his or her duty under section 28A of the said Act, (b) any assessment made, data compiled or opinion expressed under or for the purposes of subsection (5) of the said section 28A, and (c) whether and to what extent employers, which were companies, paid...

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...response to date. This Government just does not get it. The sheer timidity and lack of imagination in response to the effective slashing of the living standards of hundreds of thousands of families and individuals has left an awful lot to be desired. We should reflect for a moment on what the soaring cost of living means in real terms for the people in early 2022. We should look behind...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Programmes (20 Jan 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...of State would agree that it is absolutely ridiculous for people to be asked to present the same information on several occasions, often to the same Department. We know that certain issues the Data Protection Commissioner had with the use of the public services card have been resolved. The Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019 provides for a better and accountable sharing of information...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Data Protection (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the implications for the roll-out of online public services arising from the recent settlement between the Data Protection Commissioner and the Minister for Social Protection on proceedings relating to the public services card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62575/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (16 Dec 2021)

Gerald Nash: 488. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to upgrade the functions and structure of the Data Protection Commissioner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62576/21]

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Jul 2021)

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important Bill. The number of personal contract plans for new cars has sky rocketed since data were first recorded in 2014, from just over 10,000 PCPs then to over 62,000 outstanding PCPs in February 2020. That is an increase of over 500%. Not only has the number of unregulated PCPs risen rapidly, but the outstanding level of PCP debt attached to...

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Gerald Nash: ...instance. People are concerned about the different variants. Those who are in the 60-69 age cohort are particularly anxious as they await the second dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine to better protect them from the so-called Indian variant. The vast bulk of this age cohort will not be fully vaccinated until August. That is a long time to wait. As we do not know what is ahead of us,...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Dec 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...their own rules, credit unions are required to hold AGMs within certain periods of time. Notwithstanding all that, there is a need to address genuine issues in respect of security, the general data protection regulation, GDPR, transparency and other important governance matters. That is what amendment No. 1 is designed to do. This is an issue of particular concern to my colleague, Deputy...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...EU and UK trade as simply and productively as possible while maintaining the integrity of the Single Market and its rules. I recall accompanying the then German Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection, my social democratic colleague, Ms Katarina Barley, MEP, on a visit to the Border area of north County Louth in early February of last year. We stood on top of a well-known...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...with our new ObairGhearr scheme, based on the successful German short-time work scheme, to ensure workers do not lose out and that they are upskilled. Such a scheme would ensure State-subsidised workers do not lose out and are protected from economic dismissals or attempts to use the crisis as cover for cost cutting. It would also make employers, with the support of the State, provide...

Data Protection Act 2018 (section 60(6)) (Central Bank of Ireland) Regulations 2020: Motion (3 Nov 2020)

Gerald Nash: ...must be taken of the extent to which the exercise of the right or compliance with the obligation would prejudice the achievement by the bank of a relevant objective, the essence of the right to data protection of the data subject and the risks to the rights and freedoms of the data subject which might result from such a restriction. I note that data subjects in the context of these...

Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (20 Nov 2018)

Gerald Nash: .... We all knew that some employers did not waste the opportunity presented to them by a good recession to drive down the pay and terms and conditions of workers. I have argued to death with economists about data and trends on casualisation of work in this country over the past 20 years or so. Some do not feel there is a particular problem and argue that the data have remained consistent...

Seanad: National Minimum Wage (Removal of Sub-minimum Rates of Pay) Bill 2017: Second Stage (29 May 2018)

Gerald Nash: ...of the national minimum wage in the first place, which was introduced by the then Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Harney, to her credit. The Low Pay Commission is very important institutional protection for people on low pay and is a bulwark against the scourge of low pay and the damage that it can do to citizens, families and society. One reason why the Low Pay...