Results 1-20 of 32 for data protection speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Next is No. R2198B, correspondence from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, providing information that we requested regarding the Department’s views on the data protection impact assessment of the public services card. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Murphy wished to discuss this...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...respect of Portlaoise and the Midlands Prison, which are on one campus. We will note and publish No. R2094. I will move on to No. R2098, which is from John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection on 28 July. It provides information that we requested regarding the Department’s views on the data protection impact assessment, DPIA, with regard to the public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: Okay. Is it agreed that we will request that information? We will ask for the view of the Department on the report. I thought the Data Protection Commissioner would be more involved than a private consultancy on this matter. Maybe I am missing something.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Jun 2023)

Brian Stanley: The point I am making is that the Data Protection Commission, rather than a private consultancy firm, is the final arbiter on this matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities (30 Mar 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...'s meeting. No apologies have been received. Deputy Cormac Devlin may be late. Members and witnesses attending from within the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. Members of the committee attending remotely must continue to do so from within the precincts of Leinster House due to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Sep 2022)

Brian Stanley: In conversation, we have gathered that the RTB has access to the data from the housing assistance payment, HAP, which is social protection. We could request the RTB to clarify whether it has full access to Revenue. The Department of Social Protection still pays rent supplement. Has it full access to the list of properties - obviously not all the information in the database - for the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education
2018 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Purchase of Sites for School Provision
2019 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8 - Management of the Schools Estate (7 Jul 2022)

Brian Stanley: Are data from the Department of Social Protection used? I do not mean data about individual houses but about a general area. Back in the 1990s, there was a company called Gamma from which one could get the statistical profile of an area, how many people were unemployed, how many people were in rented accommodation, and so on. Is that the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management (19 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: Has the view of the Data Protection Commissioner been sought on that?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Feb 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will note that and request further information. No. 1018B is correspondence from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, dated 20 January 2022. It is in response to our request for quarterly updates on the investigation of the employment status of workers engaged by RTÉ. The Secretary General outlines the information provided to the committee to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (16 Dec 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...in the past. Since 2019, RTÉ has implemented significant reform in this area, and has adopted an "employment first" principal. The correspondence continues by stating that because the Department of Social Protection audit process is ongoing, RTÉ cannot provide high-level data such as the numbers of personnel involved, categorisation of individuals, income levels etc. As the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (4 Nov 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...No. I propose that we take Nos. 841 and 845 together as they concern RTÉ. I will summarise each of them. No. 841 is correspondence from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General, Department of Social Protection, dated 22 October, in which he provides information requested by the committee on the examinations by the Department and the Office of the Revenue Commissioners of RTÉ’s...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...from the committee's request for information during that meeting. No. 726B specifically addresses the committee's request for a copy of the report published by Ms Mairéad McKenna in regard to protective disclosures at University of Limerick. The recommendations of the report were provided to the committee last March. That was correspondence R0410. The university has requested the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2021)

Brian Stanley: In the correspondence, the chief executive says: Given the complexity and challenges in reporting the above occasional/hourly staff data, the HEA is planning to meet the HEI Representative bodies in order to agree a definition of occasional staff with a view to collecting same in Q2/3 2021 and sharing this information to the committee[.] We need to see the outcome of that and hopefully we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...is a problem in every other constituency throughout the country, and it is not getting better. Local authorities were using cameras, and it was possible to move them from one location to another. The Data Protection Commission intervened and said they must stop because there is a question mark over legislation and the legalities of all this, and legislation must be framed for it. I ask...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (22 Jan 2021)

Brian Stanley: ...at bring banks, to stop people from dumping residual waste and to try to manage bring banks better. Typically, it is a mobile set of cameras that moves from location to location. I know the Data Protection Commission has a job to do and I do not want to speak badly of it but it has put the brakes on this measure. This is driving people crazy, not just council officials but also the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Brian Stanley: ...we can see it being done is to propose that Bord na gCon would respond to the matters raised in No. 074C. Members will see it there in their correspondence. The person wrote "I believe that under Data protection law and common decency my name should be removed from the records and the records should be amended." However, the Official Report is the record. It is transcribed exactly from...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (11 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...State. His reply brings further clarity to the situation. In respect of section 38(3)(c) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Minister of State restated that the local authority must act as the data controller. That is clear and has been established. He also said that he has received feedback from the Data Protection Commissioner, who confirmed that there is no issue with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (11 Dec 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...groups have raised thousands of euro towards a CCTV scheme through voluntary efforts but they are in a situation where they cannot put their plans into action because of a dispute over who is the data controller. I have raised the issue previously in the Chamber, and I raised it at the Laois local joint policing committee, JPC, of which I am a member. The policing committee asked me to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...with the very serious issues that arose in the Channel 4 programme. The context in which this has happened is interesting. We need to tease out some of the issues today. The issues of child protection, hate speech and racist material have arisen. Facebook is in our pockets because it is on our phones and it goes into every sitting room. It is present throughout the globe. Facebook...

Other Questions: Decentralisation Programme (17 May 2018)

Brian Stanley: ...public service. In Offaly, there is part of the Department of Education and Skills and the Department of Finance. Laois has the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment. IDA Ireland jobs have been slow to come to Laois and Offaly. Only four jobs were created by IDA Ireland in...