Results 1-20 of 35 for data protection speaker:Paul Murphy

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...because of the sharp increase in road deaths. They think it is no longer fit for purpose. The RSA has refused to release details of collisions to local authorities for the past eight years on data protection grounds that are spurious and that even the Data Protection Commissioner says are bogus. The RSA busies itself with handing out 40,000 hi-vis vests to two- and three-year-olds in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (19 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...for workplace health and safety assessments on behalf of her Department is not accessible to those with mobility issues; if she will ensure that Medmark is compliant with Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which grants individuals the right to request a copy of their personal data being processed by controllers, as well as other relevant information; and if she will make...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Legal Cases (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday, the Data Protection Commission fined the Department of Health €22,500 for excessive and disproportionate eliciting of sensitive personal details about the private lives of people who had taken legal action against the State over access to supports for children with special educational needs. It came after the exposure of this practice by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (29 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 323. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to confirm if a jobseeker is obligated to share personal data with a third-party private company (details supplied); the exact scope of the data they are legally required to disclose; the mechanisms of data processing; whether the data could be transferred outside Ireland/the EU; and what safety measures are in place,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (21 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 143. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a jobseeker is obligated to share personal data with a third-party private company, such as Seetec, contracted by the Government and acting as a Government agent; and if it is mandatory for a jobseeker to provide data and details such as past employment, names, addresses or any potential future data or details that may...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services Card (20 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 271. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in light of the finding of the Data Protection Committee that the Department of Social Protection improperly gathered data through the Public Service Card, his views on whether the call in June 2018 by the then-Secretary General at his Department for a ban on those with free travel passes from public transport during rush hour was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...claims that the landlord was asking tenants for their HAP pin number - as per the email your office received on 25 May 2023 (details supplied); and if he will consider that this a serious breach of data protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29357/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (20 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 409. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views in relation to the finding of the Data Protection Committee that her Department improperly gathered data through the public services card (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (20 Jun 2023)

Paul Murphy: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she agrees that the report from her Department given to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee in December 2019, which stated that her Department received free travel pass “usage data” which “indicates that a FT Travel pass was used at a particular time and date” and that “this data...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...use; — it has failed to enable a just transition to renewable energy, or to reduce energy use, and is inherently incapable of doing so; — the Government's policy of encouraging the construction of energy-guzzling data centres, which have accounted for 70 per cent of the increase in metered electricity usage since 2015 and now swallow up 16.5 per cent of total electricity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...out fossil fuels. The failure to recognise that and include it in the text speaks to the power of the fossil fuel lobbyists, 636 of whom were present at COP27, and the commitment of governments to protect the interests of big oil and gas. We have the same text as came from COP26 - efforts towards the phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. Now we have reference to an increase in...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...targets and that, instead of reducing, emissions in agriculture, electricity and transport were actually increasing this year. He did not mention the €30,000 per month agreed in the budget for data centres, which are now responsible for using more electricity than all of the rural homes in Ireland combined. He did not mention the continued commitment to the industrialised model of...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...Coalition Against Hate Crime Ireland's call for a national action plan against hate. This must include much greater Government funding of education and outreach to combat hateful attitudes and to make protected groups aware of their rights, better data gathering on hate speech and hate crimes, and better victim support. The best way to combat hate crimes is to prevent them from happening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...companies, 14 of the top 15 medical technology companies and 18 of the top financial services companies. We know that Ireland Inc. markets itself globally as having low corporation tax, low data protection and low regulation. Is part of this driven by showing we are not trying to put too onerous burdens on corporations?

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...leaving workers at risk of severe exploitation". The centre stated that this Bill, as it currently stands, is focused solely on increasing flexibility for employers with absolutely no attempt to protect workers' rights. That is the scandal. The centre is absolutely correct. The Bill is about flexibility for employers and has absolutely nothing to defend the rights of migrant workers...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Data Protection (26 Apr 2022)

Paul Murphy: 178. To ask the Taoiseach his views in relation to the process of data collection and handling of census forms that the Data Protection Commissioner should investigate if, in fact the current processes in place are current and compliant with EU and National GDPR regulation; and if people's information is being handled by the CSO in line with best practices. [20182/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...last month. We know the risks here in terms of admission to ICT, hospitalisation, the impact on the rest of the health service and the 10% who will suffer from long Covid. In light of all of that data, is it not correct to take a cautious approach in terms of lifting the recommendation on masks and in the context of the public health guidance that is in place to protect people?

Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore: Motion (19 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: ..., Singapore passed the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act. It is legislation which allows the authorities to force social media platforms and Internet service providers to hand over user data, to block contacts and remove applications that share information considered by the authorities to be anti-state. Ms Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty International's deputy regional director for...

Energy Prices: Motion [Private Members] (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Murphy: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: recognises: — that energy prices are currently rising rapidly worldwide; — the fact that data centres currently take up 11 per cent of electricity produced in Ireland is adding to upward pressure on energy prices, as predicted by Moody’s in 2018; — that according to the Economic and Social Research Institute, one...

Freedom of Information: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2021)

Paul Murphy: ..." was not said by the Minister, Deputy Coveney, but by the Tánaiste on 5 November 2020. On 31 August 2021, Deputy Coveney stated: "I do not hold on to text messages for long periods in terms of data on my phone and so on." On 7 September 2021, he also stated that he cleared texts from his phones regularly when business was done, or something like that. At the risk of pointing out...