Results 1-19 of 19 for data protection speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2024)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the offending ship to the nearest port. Therefore, a French ship could land an offending rogue into an Irish port to be dealt with under Irish law. It is the only way. Consider the amount of data that is crossing through our economic zone. We cannot protect it. As a European family, we could protect it. We have to start as a nation building alliances with like-minded countries to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Gerard Craughwell: ...in taking the flak here today, but I ask him to speak to whoever sent the documentation to us and tell them that we are not total idiots altogether and that we are capable people. If there are issues with the general data protection regulation, we can handle those by having an in camerameeting. We do not have to go public if very sensitive data are involved. The committee can agree to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: On 22 October, Daniel McConnell, the political editor of the Irish Examiner, wrote an excellent piece about how general data protection regulation, GDPR, commercial sensitivity and various other excuses are being used to deny members of the press and Members of the Oireachtas access to information. This is something that has concerned me for some time. For example, I put in a freedom of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...line is this. What an embarrassment that this State, in which we constantly talk about our sovereignty and neutrality and hear all the other nonsense about the defence of the State, is unable to protect the very lifeblood of data that come through this country or the economic zone for which we are responsible? People speak about the "cloud" as if it was up there. It is not. It is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Gerard Craughwell: ...because of other commitments I was not around to engage with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, on defence issues. I agree with my colleague Deputy Berry that we are a defenceless nation. We have so much data coming through our economic zone in the Atlantic and who is responsible for it? It is the Garda. The Garda does not go to sea. We do not have a Naval Service that is capable of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (28 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...hosts some of the largest information technology companies in the world. Are we putting the cart before the horse by talking about digital wallets when we are not in a position to guarantee those data will be safe? The Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, told us last week that every Minister's telephone was encrypted and yet a Minister's telephone was in someway compromised. We are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...agency under a director of intelligence that will bring together all the different intelligence-gathering agencies of the State. That includes the Garda, Defence Forces and the Departments of Social Protection and the Environment, Climate and Communications. We need them all under one umbrella whereby they can share information and we will know what is happening. We take issues like...

Seanad: Maritime Jurisdiction Bill 2021: Second Stage (31 May 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was adopted in 1982, is frankly nonsense when we are in a situation where the State can only claim ownership and sovereignty of that which it can protect itself. We are talking here about distances as far as 200 miles off the coast of Ireland, and we do not have the capacity to protect that area. It is important to remember that the Naval...

Seanad: EU Regulations (Europol): Motion (26 Apr 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...brings about. These threats stretch across borders and there is no reason the law should not be able to pursue them when they do so. One caveat to my welcome for the motion might be around data. Whenever we talk about individuals' personal data we must always ask who is watching the watchers. High-profile abuses of data hoarding and processing are never far from the front pages. We be...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...will not be surprised I am on my feet once again because of the Defence Forces. Ireland has a responsibility beyond its borders. We are a member of the European Union and have a responsibility to protect Europe's assets. We have a responsibility to ensure drug and people trafficking does not take place off our coast. We are in the sad situation in which four of our nine ships are tied...

Seanad: Gambling Legislation: Motion (27 Feb 2019)

Gerard Craughwell: ...the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, to the House to discuss a issue that is close to his heart and one on which he has expended some time. I also welcome the publication today of the first set of data on gambling in Ireland. I look forward to examining the scale of the field work, the sample size and the findings. As an initial response, I believe that the focus on lottery tickets and...

Seanad: Education (Digital Devices in Schools) Bill 2018: Second Stage (27 Jun 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: .... What is exciting about the project is that the effects were almost immediate and entirely positive. In terms of learning outcomes, the most recent study in an Irish context based on the 2014 data was carried out by the Educational Research Centre which looked at 8,000 primary pupils in 150 schools across the country. Among the findings was that pupils who did not have a smart phone...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Mar 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: I am delighted that I have provided the House with something to chuckle about. This is really serious; 16 year olds are not children. A couple of weeks ago, we tried to amend the Data Protection Bill to raise the digital age of consent to 16 and the House went berserk. Members said, "No, it should be 13." They are not going to kill us and it is unlikely they will do silly things. They...

Seanad: Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Gerard Craughwell: ...day's work. The presumption of innocence is the bedrock of the entire justice system. However, I am telling the Minister that we cannot have the most senior garda in the country, the custodian of all the data that may be called on in the tribunal of inquiry, sitting in uniform on one side of the tribunal, while another senior garda is sitting on the other side pointing the finger of...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I move amendment No. 9: In page 55, to delete lines 13 to 26 and substitute the following: “(2) The database shall be the property of the Department of Social Protection for the purposes of payment of the grant and be subject to the provisions of data protection legislation.”. I regret that the Minister of State is taking the flak in the Chamber and the senior...

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: Incidentally, if there is any suggestion that I will find myself on a database that is not controlled under data protection, I will have serious difficulty with it. I seek an assurance that the database, if it is created, will be the property of the Department of Social Protection. That should be provided for in the Bill, as amendment No. 9 proposes.

Seanad: Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (21 Jul 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: I asked what the database is for. If all the Government wants to do is to pay the €100 grant, all it needs to know is the name and address of the person and whether it is the person's principal private residence. That is all the Government needs to know - nothing else. What is all this other stuff for? Why is the Government looking for this information? Now the Minister of State...

Seanad: Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Jun 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...as painless as possible. The Bill he has brought forward is to ensure the public interest is served in regard to undertaking a legitimate postcode activity so that the processing of any personal data, in postcodes, enables databases to be in compliance with data protection. There are many serious concerns to be expressed here, and not just about the Bill but about the entire Eircode...

Seanad: Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Effective Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015: Motion (2 Apr 2015)

Gerard Craughwell: ...of information if they wish. Where we are talking about individuals employed in this House who are not public representatives and have not put themselves before the public, there is an onus on the Data Protection Commissioner to protect their identities if they want to do that. If someone wants to know whether I have employed relations, they should ask me straight out. I will be writing...