Results 1-20 of 28 for data protection speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The HSE and Department are looking at them. I presume that other State agencies, including the Data Protection Commission, are also looking at such providers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The HSE does not have a team working on examining the providers and their merits in terms of data protection.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The issue of data protection is becoming quite contentious globally.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (4 Oct 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 226. To ask the Minister for Health if any investigations will be considered in light of findings from the Data Protection Commissioner that officials in his Department kept dossiers in a manner that was unlawful and unnecessary, containing sensitive information on families of children with autism who had previously engaged in litigation with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the...

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

Neasa Hourigan: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether data is collected on rates of child poverty, particularly in areas of deprivation, as defined by Pobal, by her Department or any relevant bodies; the methods used; the subsets under which this data is collected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41135/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to go back to access for research. I am unashamedly coming at this from a position where I would like to see a lot of access. I want to protect everybody's privacy and see disaggregated data of course but I would like reasonable access for researchers. I went down a rabbit hole on data matching and how some of it works. Will the witnesses provide some detail on how accessible...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (3 May 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has consulted the Data Protection Commissioner or carried out a data protection impact assessment in relation to the property marking scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20367/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We will speak to another group after this session. Will electronic healthcare records be deployed for the sake of evidence-based decision-making and disaggregated data? I sit on many committees and the lack of disaggregated data comes up almost every week. The HSE and the Department of Social Protection are the key players in this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Electronic Health Records: Discussion (25 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to the patient interaction with this and understand whether there has been any information or interaction with the data commissioner or the Data Protection Commission office on both research in general and genomics in particular but also on that health information Bill. Is that anything the witnesses are aware of?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Has the Data Protection Commissioner voiced any issues? I liken this aspect to some of the listing in the context of housing lists. Often, there are priority lists based on very personal information and there is a correlation in this regard concerning who has access to it. In my constituency, I have certainly come across people's information being shared with the wrong body. It is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: An Garda Síochána (9 Nov 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...protests. For example, we are all here in Leinster House. There have been protests by all sorts of civil society groups on the cost of living, Covid and everything else. At the moment the data relate to general public order and not to healthcare protections. Is that correct?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures Review: Discussion (22 Jun 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Members and all in attendance are asked to exercise personal responsibility in protecting themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. As numbers are quite high at the moment, we strongly advise members and others in attendance to practise good hand hygiene and to leave some distance between themselves and others attending. They should always maintain an appropriate level of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (29 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 470. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline the progress on the recognition of non-binary persons in the collection and collation of personal data within the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15994/22]

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: ...asked SEAI for details on what work on his or her home is being claimed for, when inspections are happening and the quantum of the grant provided. The SEAI responded that due to the general data protection regulation, GDPR, it cannot discuss the status of an application with the homeowner. Why can a homeowner not get details from the SEAI in respect of work being carried out on his or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (3 Feb 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the interactions he has had with the Data Protection Commission concerning the policy necessity of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill; the view that the Commission expressed to his Department with regard to the need for bespoke legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5427/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...answered. I will follow up on two areas. I was delighted to hear Dr. Lynch talk about implementation in terms of making Departments work better together. I want to pick up on the issue around data, which I think is incredibly important. We hear over and over at the health committee about the fact that services and the roll-out of policy are hamstrung when data on what people need are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: I do not want to go through the resumé of the senior counsel. That is unfair because he is not here. I have actually done that myself and data protection law is not listed as one of his areas of expertise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: ...point several times today, and has also said things like there is an implication here that something untoward was happening and it is absolutely not the case. With the greatest respect, until the Data Protection Commissioner decides that, Mr. Watt cannot possibly know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: Those are legal issues. Data protection is also a legal issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Operation of the Medical Card Scheme: Discussion (30 Mar 2021)

Neasa Hourigan: This might be more around the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS. Since 2019 have there been any interactions with the Data Protection Commissioner?