Results 1-20 of 390 for data protection speaker:Richard Bruton

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...protectionism occurring and I wonder whether that will impact some of the bigger players that IDA Ireland has. There is a need to seriously regulate artificial intelligence in the interests of protecting human endeavour. We will become a centre of the oversight of any new rules and I wonder how that will impact on our approach. The chairperson designate mentioned sustainability. I do...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...different kind of business environment is emerging. It is hard to recruit in these sectors because they are always customer-facing and they are less attractive. I absolutely agree that we need to protect those employments. Covid showed that many of them were not adequately protected. The responses to that through changing the living wage, sick pay, etc. are absolutely right for the...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...to terms with the impact of the digital world on the way we live our lives. This really is different from anything we are used to as legislators. Platforms have generated a massive range of data on every one of us, they know how to amplify messages and how to find influential hooks to bring influence to bear on us. Of course it is true, as the Digital Services Bill states, that this has...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: .... The second request I have is to ask for an audit. It is a long time since Deputy Naughten and myself had a look at science in our schools and I confess that I have not come back to revisit the data. Female participation does not seem to me to be a great deal higher than it was 20 years ago, or whatever it was, when we looked at this. Curriculum and assessment, while it has made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...bodies need to be held publicly accountable in each of the spheres? As I understand it, the EPA is less the enforcer, although it does oversee the local authorities. It is more involved in the data and stepping back, as it were. Which bodies should we be looking at primarily to step up to the plate and do better? Where, in the view of the EPA, do individual parts of this jigsaw fall...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...high bills with people nonetheless. We need to try to move towards those more permanent solutions. I regret that the smart meters and the time-based use are not getting the pick-up they ought to. There are general data protection regulation, GDPR, obstacles preventing that and we need to find a way of making it more available to people. We need to look at enterprises that can make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Bruton: 133. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken an assessment of the take-up of the working family dividend, and consulted with the Revenue Commissioners who collect income data to ensure that this support is fully taken up. [33146/23]

Biodiversity Action: Statements (25 May 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...at the heart of this, we are doomed to fail. I commend the Minister on the progress he is making. He is strengthening capacity and budgets, creating better frameworks and creating better data. I welcome particularly the citizens' assembly, which has really underpinned the strategic importance of protecting nature for the citizens of this country. I do feel, however, that we are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Bruton: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has undertaken an assessment of the take-up of the working family dividend and consulted with the Revenue Commissioners, which collects income data to ensure that this support is fully taken up. [14949/23]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...of the public but most people probably do not know what their potential is. Active sign-up is required because of GDPR rules. Has the Department looked at the possibility of sitting down with the Data Protection Commissionerto see is there any way of overcoming the data protection requirements? There could be a much higher take-up of something that can save money for people at this...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...volunteering to take up this mechanism. It seems that the GDPR rules are being over-interpreted. I am not an expert in the field but would it be worth the Department's while teasing out with the Data Protection Commissioner what is permissible and whether we could go a little further to offer what is an energy-saving option to people?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Bruton: Somebody in the Minister of State's Department should talk to the Data Protection Commissioner and determine whether the intention of data protection is to have customers miss out on something that there is now a national effort to achieve.

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Bruton: ...other responsibilities. When the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, was before the joint committee last week, he told us that as yet there is no baseline for green procurement. I know the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, produces some data on green procurement. However, we ought to be seeing the EPA's indicator on green procurement being reported in these Revised Estimates so we can see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...opting out instead of opting in. We have put in smart meters now in 1 million homes but homeowners have to opt in to avail of the impact of smart meters. We are told this is because of general data protection regulation, GDPR, but opting out would create a normal expectation that people were going to manage their electricity. That is the sort of thing. The person chosen to be the...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...in that regard. It is a feature of the Bill. Maybe her experience in credit unions has stood to her. I commend her on the consistent progress she is making in tackling poverty. The latest data from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, show that the number of families in consistent poverty has halved since 2016, down now to just 4%. That is still 4% too many but significant progress...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Bruton: I would like to raise another issue. Mr. Travers outlined that data centres are driving much of the dynamism in this sector. If one listened to the commentary, one would think that data centres were the cause of all our energy and climate challenges. It is important to hear from our guests what the role of data centres is. Long term, we have a great opportunity in respect of offshore...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: I thank the Minister for her reply. I ask that she ask her officials to provide her with data on the proportion of those moneys that goes to the high-growth communities on the edges or our cities in Waterford, Galway and Dublin, including in my and the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach's constituency. These communities do not have the sports clubs that can draw down sports grants. They do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Regulations 2022
Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Competition and Consumer Protection Commission) Regulations 2022
Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) (Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority) Regulations 2022 (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: ...cat and mouse with well-resourced bodies which can use every opportunity to obstruct them. This is a logical and welcome approach to containing that sort of behaviour. It is reassuring that the Data Protection Commissioner has lodged no objections to it. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for their work on this.

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Richard Bruton: I join with other Deputies in saying this Bill is very welcome. I also join with other Deputies, however, in saying we need a much more activist consumer protection approach in this country, particularly at this time of rising costs but more importantly at a time of imbalance in the relationship between these large companies, which not only have access to market power but that also have an...