Results 1-20 of 21 for data protection speaker:Gerry Horkan

Seanad: Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...be it from me to need to defend the Minister but I note that in her speech, she said that she will continue to advocate at EU level for an EU-wide legal instrument that will support strong general data retention measures to deal with national security and law enforcement concerns. I know we must be very cautious about referring to specific cases and I know there is a balance between data...

Seanad: European Union Regulation: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...They were all able to work together in that case but it is clear the Minister wants them to be able to do so in the most efficient way possible, with access to each other's information and shared data. That is really what the motion is doing. It is not setting up investigation teams; it is just allowing them to work much more efficiently than they did previously. Clearly, if this...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

Gerry Horkan: ...strategic policy committee. That was a time when councils had responsibility in totality for both water and waste. We dealt with this matter a lot and we were much involved with the setting up of the Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments, PURE, project in the uplands. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council was involved with that. The amount of waste in the rural areas was huge....

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

Gerry Horkan: ...and the people who are making the comments. I am conscious of time so I will ask my final question. The committee has discussed the cyberattack on the HSE. In terms of the security of the data, would it be held by each nation or in a big European cloud somewhere? I know it is all in the cloud anyway, but who minds it and how is it protected? We all use online banking, mobile phone...

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

Gerry Horkan: .... It was voluntary if one wanted to have one but it was mandatory if one wanted to get social welfare benefits. There were certain aspects to it. There is always a fine line when it comes to data sharing. I benefited from being on the finance committee where we discussed such legislation in the last term. Equally, there are issues with freedom of information and GDPR. There are a lot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Gerry Horkan: ..., the vast majority of the public would accept the use of cameras if people are blatantly breaking red lights and are a danger to everybody, including themselves. This is the kind of area where data protection and the general data protection regulation, GDPR, get a bad name. We should ensure whatever laws need to be in place for safeguarding are there, but the GDPR alone should not be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ..., multiple claimants. Perhaps people are accident prone. I am not saying they are all doing it, but some people seem to have a history of many more accidents and claims. I thought the purpose of this famous insurance database was that all the insurance companies would pay a fee to be members of it, which meant that they could share information. Is Ms Muldoon now saying that general...

Seanad: Free Education (Prohibition of Fees and Charges) Bill 2018: Second Stage (8 May 2019)

Gerry Horkan: ...the voluntary aspect. Most principals are under enormous pressure to deliver in teaching and learning, but they must also be experts when it comes to burglar alarms, fire alarms, health and safety measures, child protection and human relations. A lot of work goes into being a school principal. I do not know whether Senator Ó Ríordáin sought the research, but I want to...

Seanad: Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ...the opportunity to speak on this long-awaited Bill which we will be supporting as a party. The Bill, as the Minister of State outlined, enables the Central Bank to gather and publish regularly data on insurance claims. At present, 70% of those claims are settled outside either the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, PIAB, or the courts, with 20% in the PIAB and 10% in the courts. There...

Seanad: Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018: Second Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Gerry Horkan: ..., people who work in the Civil Service or the Revenue Commissioners or whoever else are not looking at their information purely for frivolous matters or because they wish to. It is important that data sharing exists and that the laws are there to ensure that we comply with both national and EU law. I will not go over the Minister of State's comprehensive speech on every section of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: At the same time the Data Protection Commissioner says CCTV footage can only be retained for a month. Is there any way we can resolve that quickly? I have no problem with people who have genuine claims. No one has a problem with genuine claims being pursued. However, it is two years later. In the hospitality industry, including restaurants and licensed premises, and even in supermarkets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)

Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State is saying there is a two-year window for people to make claims but that within a month, under data protection rules, they would have to at least alert the relevant premises that something has happened and that they might be making a claim within the two years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Engagement with AILG and LAMA (21 Nov 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...although I read the transcripts of the relevant meetings. There is publicly declarable and privately declarable information. The issue is that privately declarable information could be subject to data protection and could be leaked or whatever. All of this information should be declarable. It is declarable to the Revenue Commissioners and privately. If the Revenue wishes to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: I welcome from Digital Rights Ireland Dr. Dennis Jennings, adviser; Mr. Daragh O'Brien, data protection expert; and Mr. Antóin Ó Lachtnáin, director. I also welcome Mr. Denis Kelleher, barrister-at-law. The committee is resuming its scrutiny of the draft general scheme of the Data-Sharing and Governance Bill. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: We are meeting to engage in pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft general scheme of data-sharing and governance Bill with officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Justice and Equality, and Mr. Dale Sunderland, deputy commissioner, and Mr. Cathal Ryan, assistant commissioner, from the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. I welcome Mr. Barry...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: ...whose car is taxed also has car insurance and vice versais not affected by this Bill, but there is other legislation covering those kinds of schemes in the first place. In terms of access to data, there is FOI on one side and data protection on the other. In terms of data, we are all concerned about garbage in, garbage out. At the moment, almost a million random breath tests that never...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: This may be a question for the Data Protection Commissioner or perhaps for Mr. Lowry. I am not sure. It is regarding audit trails and the track being kept of what everyone is looking at and inputting. Is that all included in the legislation? It emerged when somebody won €120 million or whatever it was in the EuroMillions lotto that approximately 70 people in the Revenue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (18 May 2017)

Gerry Horkan: Mr. Sunderland was talking about the obligations of data controllers and organisations that hold data. Most of us realise these regulations exist. Is it required that every single user of data on a system must have his or her own audit trail based on what he or she looks at? One hears of passwords being shared and of people being able to access data on general terminals. Is everybody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Costs of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2016)

Gerry Horkan: ...at this and are clearly very exercised about it. I think this is the last scheduled session. We have had four and a half days of this stuff before this morning. We keep saying it is lack of data. The insurance companies say they give the data to the Central Bank. The Central Bank says it does not collect the data because it is either not allowed to collect them or is not entitled to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (8 Sep 2016)

Gerry Horkan: Do any of the witnesses have an opinion on the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission looking at the figures? Dr. Gillen's point was on the concept of a black box and all of the players' data becoming available anonymously and not for the benefit of competitors. At a previous session, the point was made that it could be argued the industry is operating as a form of a cartel, and on...