Results 1-20 of 39 for data protection speaker:Joe O'Brien

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...will be available to persons who have an authenticated standard authentication framework environment, SAFE, identity, in the form of a public services card issued by the Department of Social Protection and a verified MyGovID account, and will operate in parallel with the existing in-person civil registration service provided in local registration offices by the HSE. The requirement for...

Report of Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion (1 Feb 2024)

Joe O'Brien: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I thank the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands for its report on the progress being made on the SDGs. Achievement of the SDGs is essential if we are to ensure a sustainable future for all. They address the global and local challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change,...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Functions (30 Jan 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...and knowledge of supporting migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in their areas. I was happy to secure €10m in 2023 to continue supports to arrivals from the Ukraine and also to International Protection Applicants . This funding supported approximately 88 Local Community Groups who focused on supporting the New Arrivals. Approximately 7,936 individuals were also supported by...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2024)

Joe O'Brien: ...experience and knowledge of supporting migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in their areas. I was happy to secure €10m to continue supports to arrivals from the Ukraine and also to International Protection Applicants in 2023. A breakdown in allocations for Cavan and Monaghan is outlined in table 1 below. Table 1: Lot Name Programme Implementer New...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Dec 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...inclusion and community activation programme allocations and allocations to volunteer centres. Going into 2024, we are specifically looking at the numbers of new arrivals, both international protection applicants and Ukrainians in each local development company area. That is a refresh in our data from last year in terms of where we focus people on the ground, that is, community workers....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Levels (24 Oct 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...target is to reduce the percentage of the population in consistent poverty to 2% or less by 2025. The Roadmap also includes other indicators to support on delivery of this ambition. Official poverty data is published annually by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). SILC 2022 data shows that there have been improvements across the key...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (26 Sep 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...source of poverty statistics for Ireland. The most recent survey results in relation to the 2022 survey were published by the CSO on 22 February 2023. Due to the sample sizes involved, poverty data is only available at regional level. However, child poverty data at regional level is not readily available on the CSO website. The issue of producing poverty statistics is a matter for the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fiscal Policy (21 Jun 2023)

Joe O'Brien: I thank Deputy Durkan for raising this issue. The Central Bank has put in place a range of measures to protect customers who take out a mortgage or have another loan. This consumer protection framework seeks to ensure that all Central Bank regulated entities are transparent and fair in all their dealings with borrowers and that borrowers are protected from the beginning to the end of the...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Apr 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...key areas of our civil law. The Bill includes amendments across a diverse range of areas including occupiers' liability, court offices, bankruptcy, Irish nationality and citizenship, international protection, immigration, legal services and the judicial council. The Bill comprises 15 Parts and I will now highlight key provisions. Part 2 contains a number of amendments to the Irish...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Apr 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...to centralising and automating court offices and processes, and from improving citizenship and naturalisation procedures to further modernising our legislation in areas such as bankruptcy and data protection. When enacted, this Bill will have a positive impact across society and make a real difference to people's lives. I note a common theme in the contributions that I will bring back to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals (21 Mar 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...169 targets. My Department is identified as the lead Department in relation to five specific targets under three separate goals. My officials recently attended the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands to update on progress in implementation of our SDG targets. Under Goal 1, which relates to poverty, my Department leads on...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: .... Like all of the Government, I am acutely aware of this challenge. That is why significant measures, including and outside of the annual budgetary cycle, have been implemented in an effort to protect households. Indeed, recent research from the ESRI shows that lower-income households are more protected after the budget measures than they would be if welfare rates were index-linked to...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Joe O'Brien: ...the format that constrains us may limit our scope to have some over and back discussion. As Minister of State with responsibility for the roadmap for social inclusion in the Department of Social Protection, I have a particular interest in the issue at hand but it also very much crosses into my community development responsibilities in the Department of Rural and Community Development....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (13 Oct 2022)

Joe O'Brien: ...child poverty. I welcome the recent publication of the CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) module on child specific deprivation. It is critical to have accurate and detailed data if we are to better understand and address such issues. The 2021 SILC data has shown a reduction in the overall rate of child poverty in Ireland from 7.2% in 2020 to 5.2% in 2021. This is very...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (14 Jul 2022)

Joe O'Brien: ...and the community and voluntary sector groups representing them, to discuss and debate national policy on poverty reduction and social inclusion.  The forum is arranged by the Department of Social Protection, with the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland and Community Work Ireland as event partners. The theme for this year's Forum was maintaining momentum in the implementation of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Energy Conservation (25 May 2022)

Joe O'Brien: ...bills from May to October. In addition, response 6 of the national energy security framework charges the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU, with implementing a package of measures to enhance protections for financially vulnerable customers and customers in debt by quarter 3, ahead of the next heating season. Furthermore, in this fuel allowance year recipients received a total...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Joe O'Brien: ...;Brien, on progressing this hugely important piece of work, which was a key commitment for the Green Party in the programme for Government. Our biodiversity and natural world have not been valued and protected in Ireland in the way they should have been in the past. The Government has changed that and the renewal of the NPWS is a big part of that change. The natural world is under...

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

Joe O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 117 and 145 together. The Survey on Income and Living Conditions contains the official poverty data for Ireland. The most recent survey results (SILC 2021) were published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on 6 May 2022. The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020–2025 is the national strategy for poverty reduction and social inclusion. The ambitious...

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

Joe O'Brien: The Survey on Income and Living Conditions contains the official poverty data for Ireland. The most recent survey results (SILC 2021) were published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on 6 May 2022. Government welcomes the progress made towards meeting the ambitious Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets, which includes reduction in the percentage of the population in consistent...

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

Joe O'Brien: The Survey on Income and Living Conditions contains the official poverty data for Ireland. The most recent survey results (SILC 2021) were published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on 6 May 2022. The Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020–2025 is the national strategy for poverty reduction and social inclusion. The ambitious headline target is to reduce the percentage of the...