Results 1-20 of 54 for data protection speaker:Catherine Connolly

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (11 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ..., with one month between them. I would really like clarification on this. The legislation was brought in to criminalise the purchase of sex and increase the penalties with the sole purpose of protecting women, but we have absolutely no data from the Government on whether this has happened. However, we do have very important research from Queen’s University Belfast, Amnesty...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...agus, níos tábhachtaí fós, iad a chur ar fáil do lucht acadúla agus don phobal. My question relates to what appears to be - forgive me if I am wrong - the complete failure of this Government and previous Governments to take action to preserve and protect the records held by various religious organisations in this country. I want to distinguish, as the...

Court Proceedings (Delays) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...time. Article 13 provides for the right to an effective remedy. Successive Governments have failed utterly to ensure that the cases were held within a reasonable time, and also to give a remedy when they were not. As always, I thank the Library and Research Service for the very good Bill digest, which has highlighted points for Deputies. We have protection under the Constitution, which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...remain under the categories, by Ministerial discretion, under exceptional measure, by exceptional circumstance, and on the basis of an Irish born/citizen child, in tabular form; if he will provide the data for each of the years from 2017 to 2022 for people who came through the international protection process, and for those who did not come through the international protection process...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...we are proceeding with a system that is utterly reliant on the market. There has been utter consumption on a constant basis without any questioning. One of the eye-opening reports for me was the data centre report and the Government policy endorsing it - giving it the thumbs up - going back to 2018, without a single attempt to analyses what data centres were doing to our environment. Of...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...me if I come from a very sceptical position. I adopt that same position in respect of my own role as a Deputy and this institution. I constantly question myself and all institutions because they end up protecting themselves and they do not end up serving the people they are there to serve, including councils and local authorities that have taken on the mantle of corporatisation. We did...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...carbon emissions by 51 per cent by 2030, relative to 2018 levels; — the sectoral emissions ceiling for transport, approved by Government in July 2022, sets an emissions reduction target of 50 per cent by 2030, relative to 2018 levels; — according to Environmental Protection Agency data, in 2021 the transport sector made up 17.7 per cent of Ireland's GHG emissions, compared...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...people suffer on the ground as a result of hatred and hate crime is simply intolerable. We need legislation to prevent that, but the balance is essential. We are doing that in a vacuum with no data. One of the documents I read stated that An Garda Síochána published its first official statistics following the introduction of its new reporting system in 2022. It was the first...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...a core offence that will criminalise any intentional or reckless communication or behaviour that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or persons because they are associated with a protected characteristic. One could not but welcome that. I am going to go through the background to the Bill as I see it and the issues. I will then describe the problematic aspects of...

Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...by a court to be invalid in a case taken by Digital Rights Ireland. We have a legislation that is currently in force and which is based on a directive that has been found to be invalid. We have known that since 2014. In April 2017, Mr. Justice John L. Murray produced a very detailed report entitled the Review of the Law on the Retention of and Access to Communications Data. There are...

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to look at this legislation. I am horrified by Deputy Leddin's comments and the ill-informed content of some of the debate. He talked about the data centre trove. I rarely personalise debate but I certainly find it a little worrying that information could be twisted in such a way by a Green Party Deputy. We have here legislation for which the date for amendments...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (17 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the development and implementation of new systems, by her Department, to process and retain applicants' personal information pursuant to the December 2021 resolution of proceedings involving the Data Protection Commission on the processing of personal data when issuing public services cards; and if she will...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...a long way towards that. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties, which we often quote here, tells us that an independent, fair, transparent and effective judicial appointments system is crucial for protecting the independence of the Judiciary and the right to a fair trial. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission tells us, "An independent and diverse judiciary are fundamental...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...us that the level of trust in our electoral system is quite high notwithstanding the state of the electoral register. It is interesting. Trust is high in the electoral system but what jumped out at me was the data for Ireland from the European Social Survey in 2019 quoted by Dr. Shana Cohen, director of TASC, in a recent article in TheIrish Times. This is more of a reflection on...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...are not included because I understand this Bill includes such companies that are in the public sector. I am not sure why that distinction is there. I very much welcome the new office of the protected disclosures commissioner that will be established. New offences are created for employers who fail in their obligations to establish the proper internal reporting channels; I welcome all of...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...potential for human rights experts from non-governmental organisations, NGOs, to assist in identification and support of smuggled persons. This comes directly from the UN protocol, which sets out the protection of smuggled persons as one of its main purposes. I will finish by referring to some of the recommendations of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, in regard to...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...section 5. Thereafter it will be for that person to prove their innocence. Accordingly, this will likely have a chilling effect on people providing assistance to people seeking international protection. That is not me. That is the commission on foot of their analysis. If we look back at the EU's response to refugees - and Deputy Durkan was looking at this in terms of borders - the...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...see what the problems were. There is more than a nuanced difference between the EU instruments and the UN instrument. The latter puts a clear emphasis on the rights of people being smuggled. It seeks to protect those people and their rights, whereas the emphasis of the EU decision and directive we are implementing is to protect borders. That is my interpretation and the interpretation...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ..., as the Minister of State knows, it went up to €31 billion. The pandemic highlighted the importance of the social welfare system in a functioning society. Social Justice Ireland state that: Poverty data from the CSO, released in October 2020, demonstrated how adequate social welfare payments are required to prevent and address poverty. Without...social welfare [and this is a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Jun 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ..., Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 641 and 642 of 24 February 2021, if the correspondence between him and or his Department and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner and the Commission of Investigation can now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31118/21]