Results 1-20 of 60 for data protection speaker:David Cullinane

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2024)

David Cullinane: ...European Union directive, regarding intellectual property rights in respect of medicines, is the subject of debate at the moment. The proposal, as I understand it, is to reduce the period of data exclusivity of IP for new products and medicines from eight years to six years. The industry, obviously, has its view and we as a State have to take our view. I understand that in all these...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (8 Nov 2023)

David Cullinane: ...aggregated numbers of living and deceased donors and the types and quantities of organs procured and transplanted, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with European Union and national provisions on the protection of personal data and statistical confidentiality, to include: (i) Deaths in hospitals; (ii) Number of potential donors; (iii) Number of donors actually requested to donate;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (20 Sep 2023)

David Cullinane: 960. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of HPSC data on excess mortalities seen last winter, he will outline the new measures which he is bringing in for this coming winter to protect the over-65s population of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40098/23]

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

David Cullinane: ...pre-legislative scrutiny of the proposals in this Bill last July. The evidence we heard clearly showed that the regulation of tobacco and nicotine inhaling products needs to be modernised. Recent data indicate that in 2015, just under one in four teenagers had used a vape, and that by 2019, this had risen to nearly 40%. The numbers smoking have also increased although they are much...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (14 Dec 2021)

David Cullinane: 604. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters (details supplied) in relation to data protection and antigen testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61520/21]

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

David Cullinane: ...in place, despite its effectiveness, which the Minister mentioned, and despite it being one of the many tools needed to keep us safe. I would argue that it is also a tool that ensures that we can protect and jealously guard the reopenings we are now beginning to see. Non-essential retail reopened last week. People were going back to work. We will see further reopenings next week and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

David Cullinane: I will finish on this. I am not interested in nor have I sought to get into issues regarding data protection or even the legalities of all of this, because other people will make those judgments. I am looking here at the process and what Mr. Watt's Department has said was standard practice. I am also looking at the type of information which was held, some of which came through service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tribunals of Inquiry (21 Apr 2021)

David Cullinane: 1788. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has received complaints relating to breaches of data protection in relation to the setting up or operation of the CervicalCheck tribunal; if so, the number of complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18974/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (31 Mar 2021)

David Cullinane: 1111. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the conclusions of the HSE investigation into a reported data breach in relation to the Covid-19 vaccine database; if this has been reported to the Data Protection Commissioner; the type of investigation carried out by the HSE; if a data protection impact assessment has been conducted since the breach; the steps taken to...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: ...is saying to Members of this House that he is putting in place a two-tier quarantine system. There will be mandatory hotel quarantine for people coming from some countries such that we will have some level of protection. I imagine the reason for that is to stop the importation of any of the new variants or the virus itself. We are imposing quarantine in respect of travel from some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vitamin D and Covid-19: Covit-D Consortium (23 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: ...part of this meeting from my perspective. I want to get a sense of the issues. In his opening statement, Dr. McCartney said there is an extensive body of international research showing the protective role of vitamin D. He then discussed geographic studies which have shown that Covid-19 incidence and mortality are higher in countries far from the equator and in countries with confirmed...

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: ...health advice. A strong message must be sent to the Government to stop the kite-flying and please stop the push-back against public health advice. The Government should do its job and make sure that all of the protections and measures that need to be in place are put in place when people are making sacrifices. These public health restrictions that impact on workers, families and...

Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Feb 2021)

David Cullinane: ...who are very worried about their prospects of returning to work. The sector has been hit very hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and supports for workers need to remain in place. It is important that we protect air connectivity routes during the pandemic, but the Minister of State cannot forget about the workers in the sector. Many of them have families and dependents who reply on her to...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: ...that have been imposed and caused a great deal of distress for people, social and economic harm. We support public health measures and interventions because we must, at the core of what we do, protect lives. That has to be what we do and should be acknowledged more by the Government. There are, of course, a minority of people who are not complying with the guidelines. In my view, a...

Winter Plan 2020: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

David Cullinane: ...trying to battle Covid and save people's lives but also because of the impact it is having on non-Covid care across a range of areas. We need to get it right as we try to strike a balance between protecting people against Covid and maintaining all critical non-Covid care. We would both agree that we are facing into a very difficult winter for our front-line staff and patients. The...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

David Cullinane: ...The vast majority of people want to return to work. There are several issues with the table that is presented on page 13 of the Revised Estimates document. First of all, the figures are based on returns data for 2018. We had discussions with officials yesterday and they told us the 2019 data will be available shortly. The income bands into which the data are broken down are far too...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I welcome Mr. McKeon and his officials. I have a few questions on the public services card. Mr. McKeon might be aware we had the Data Protection Commissioner before us a number of weeks ago and we put questions to her on this issue as well. She published a report a number of months ago and made a number of directions to the Department on foot of that report. There were three high-level...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: There were three. I am reading from the Data Protection Commissioner's report so I will put what is in the report first.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: The Department is entitled to put up a defence but I just want to clarify for the record, so there is no dispute, that the main three findings of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner's investigation are not accepted by the Department.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms (7 Nov 2019)

David Cullinane: I want to read from the Data Protection Commissioner's report because there may be other versions. I am reading from her own report and I am putting questions to Mr. McKeon on the Data Protection Commissioner's report. Page 10 details the "High-level findings of this Investigation" and it states "Three key findings of this investigation are...". It does not mention four findings, it...