Results 1-14 of 14 for data protection speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The benefit of this Bill is that we will be able to bring in legislation in areas left to national discretion in a manner that is most appropriate to Irish agriculture, with a view to protecting animal health and ensuring that the market for veterinary medicinal products and medicated feeds is an effective, equitable and functioning one. The introduction of the proposed prescribing database...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...for medical practitioners is also being dealt with. If an adopted person seeks their mother's medical records to see if there was a medical issue, the information is only given to a nominated GP to protect the privacy of the mother. That is an important issue that was also raised at the committee. It is important that the information be given but that privacy rights are respected. This...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: This Bill is crucial. It is protection for consumers and it cannot come quickly enough. Bringing in additional regulation and consumer protections across newer and emerging credit products and companies is now more important than ever. We have seen an explosion in non-cash loans and credit being provided indirectly to the consumer, for example, in buy now, pay later agreements. In...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: .... Is that the witnesses' experience? Regarding the age of digital consent and GDPR as we know it, it was left to states to decide whether that age should be 13, 14, 15 or 16. Many child protection bodies recommended that Ireland set it at the lowest age, 13, to ensure that teenagers could access information services independently of their parents as they start to discover and explore...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...State has only been in her position a short time and that she is doing her best but trust has been broken here and we have to fix that. I welcome that there will be an investigation and that the Data Protection Commission has launched an inquiry into the processing of this personal data, but I want to know if there will be accountability. What happened was wrong. There was an admission...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...through their silence. We need to immediately legislate to provide unconditional access to birth certificates for adopted people and access to records through the proper implementation of the general data protection regulation, GDPR. We do not need to give people's addresses out but people need to know that they can get their information. Denying people access to personal information...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Statement of Strategy 2021-2025: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. (12 Nov 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...never been used. It was announced approximately two years ago and no one is able to use it. The following is something about which I have a real bugbear. Do our guests feel that the general data protection regulation, GDPR, is sometimes used as a tool against obtaining information? We all welcome people's privacy and know that we have to be respectful but when one goes looking for...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for giving me this time. I am raising the issue because of the seriousness of it and in light of the report in the Irish Examinerof the concerns expressed by the Data Protection Commissioner. I voted for what I thought, and what I was told, was a Bill to preserve information. I did not vote to lock away that information for 30 years and make it...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...go to level 5 this week. Many people are doing the right thing by washing their hands, wearing masks and reducing contacts while businesses have spent thousands of euro modifying their premises to protect their staff and customers. They were all stunned when they realised that no matter how hard they tried, the virus had taken control and seems out of control. We owe it to those good...

Seanad: Illegal Drugs: Motion (13 Nov 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...is growing, with use of ecstasy among 15 to 24 year olds quadrupling between 2011 and 2015. Drug-related deaths have shown an upward trend since 2009, with 224 such deaths recorded in 2016. This data is from 2017, the most recent year for which data are available, and was compiled by the EMCDDA from a variety of sources. According to the most recent global drug survey, more than half...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...is a discretion of 15%, whether it is Tuath Housing Association, Clúid Housing or Respond Housing. Like all members, I work with local authorities and in my clinics I deal with housing. The new data protection has become a major issue when one is making representations for people to local authorities and even to an AHB about interviews or whatever. One cannot get any information...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2019)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome our senior citizens from Carlow. We are delighted to have them here today and I hope they have a lovely day. Today I want to talk about the general data protection regulation, GDPR, which is a year old this month. A most complex piece of legislation, the regulation was an attempt to unify existing legislation enacted after the 1995 directive across the European countries. This...

Seanad: Short-term Lettings Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Jun 2018)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State. What we are doing must protect communities and ensure homes are not lost from the long-term rental market and enable a genuine collaborative economy and home-sharing. The latest daft.iereport on rental availability illustrates the need for the Government to progress regulation of Airbnb and other short-term letting platforms. As the figures show, one in two...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...and Equality to come to the Chamber to allay my fears regarding the digital age of consent for children. According to a report arising from pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017 carried out by the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality last November, the digital age of consent - the age at which a child can consent to use online services - should be...