Results 1-20 of 24 for data protection speaker:Gary Gannon

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...While Ireland has enjoyed great successes domestically and internationally in STEM, will the Minister of State explain how he believes this success might possibly continue when the latest available data shows an unprecedented shortfall of more than 800 vacant teaching posts across primary school classes, undermining the education of pupils with the greatest needs? This is against a...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Gary Gannon: ...and the threat of drug cartels, to name but a few. Adding to these challenges are hybrid threats, a combination of low-risk activities, including the use of third parties to conduct cyberattacks, data breaches and information disruption that, when combined with geopolitical influence, can have devastating effects on a country's economy and security. These hybrid challenges generally take...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...years, and the stress and anxiety they cause only reduces the chance of recovery and increases the risk of suicide. I want to know if the Minister has looked into the feasibility of such a proposal. We have little data on the rate of problem gambling in Ireland and no regular national survey on gambling behaviour, which is the norm in many other countries. The latest available data...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...much better than that. It is thought that approximately 100 children are currently without a school place for this coming September. Again, I will point out that this number is not exact. While data capture has improved somewhat over recent years, much more work must be done to ensure those data are centralised, up to date and exact. I hope the Minister can speak to this further. What,...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (25 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...Birdie in the Belfast Newsletterlast year. I want to touch on some of that research, because it is important to scrutinise these claims as they are being made. It would appear that this op-ed was based on the data of just four businesses, which Dr. Birdie concluded had incurred an increased cost of 6% in bringing in goods from the UK to the North of Ireland. This was then extrapolated...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...and to use the mechanisms available to us to push this agenda further. Almost exactly one year ago today, Deputy Whitmore did just that by tabling a Bill seeking to give basking sharks additional protection by placing them as a protected species under the Fifth Schedule to the 1976 Wildlife Act. The basking shark, known as Gaeilge as liamhán mór gréine, the great fish of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (5 May 2022)

Gary Gannon: 43. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of artists from the most recent data available that have applied for the artists basic income scheme and the number of those artists that are in receipt of a means-tested payment from the Department of Social Protection. [22185/22]

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (27 Apr 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...that not only threatens our lives but the sustainability of life on this planet. We have just eight years to halve our emissions, but under this Government, emissions are going up, not decreasing. That is not my opinion; it is according to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Government must take radical action to reduce emissions. What is happening instead? Three huge...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...when we are trying to foster social cohesion, why can we not say there will be no disconnections this year? A couple of weeks ago, we discussed whether there would be widespread blackouts and the House had well-meaning debates on data centres. However, there are blackouts in individual households all over the country where people are afraid they will be disconnected and, therefore,...

Science Week 2021: Statements (10 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...average rent nationally, which is €1,516 per month, according to the Daft.ie figures released just today. This completely changes who can afford to do a PhD. This factor was replicated in the Higher Education Authority data for 2018 and 2019. Among all enrolments, the PhD cohort was by far the most affluent. That is not a coincidence. It is a necessity because the financial...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (21 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the two vacant seats to fill in the Data Protection Commission; her views on whether the filling of these seats would improve the efficiency of the Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47191/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...one-parent families? One-parent families are constantly shown to be at greater risk of deprivation and poverty. The Central Statistics Office, CSO, survey on income and living conditions, SILC, data for 2019 showed that one-parent families had a deprivation rate that was more than double that of any other household type measured. As the vast majority of one-parent families are headed by...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (7 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 57. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the absence of statistical data on the use of site visits including home visits by social welfare inspectors; her views on whether this lack of statistical data is appropriate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48691/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (9 Sep 2021)

Gary Gannon: 726. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the nature of any data collected by her Department relating to social welfare inspectors making home visits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42915/21]

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...virtue of its own arrogance, the Government was correct. Now, 400 days along the line, things have changed but for the worse for the workers on the picket lines. This discussion of the Companies (Protection of Employees’ Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021, introduced by Deputy Barry, marks nearly 400 days of strike action by the Debenhams workers. During the pandemic, we were...

Ireland's participation in MARSUR III: Motion (22 Apr 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...that have occurred over the past 18 months, they have occurred beneath our seas through fibre-optic cables, which represents a genuine threat to Ireland's space as a centre of power in respect of data and infrastructure. We have seen other powerful nations actually focus in on that. My criticism of MARSUR is that it does not go far enough in terms of protecting us against what have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (8 Dec 2020)

Gary Gannon: 430. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the value of grants provided under the reasonable accommodation fund in 2019; the most recently available data in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42155/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: 964. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department carried out a data protection impact assessment on the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter Bill 2020; and if so, if the assessment will be made available. [33100/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...their lives to standing up for the truth and revealing a broader understanding of who we are and the injustices that were inflicted on people in our country. These people have not been dealt with. The data protection expert, Simon McGarr, produced a very interesting piece of information in that he felt that this legislation would not be permissible in accordance with EU law and that the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Data Protection (29 Sep 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under the GDPR, according to the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Nowak v Data Protection Commissioner, the same information may relate to more than one individual and this does not affect the right of access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27312/20]