Results 1-15 of 15 for data protection speaker:Paul McAuliffe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Paul McAuliffe: ...to me? When victims report an issue in the system, it can often just be a result of their individual experiences, but I have seen a pattern building up, especially regarding the issue of the protection order and the seven or eight days it covers. The feeling is it is issued for too short a period when it is very clear the threat will be there for much longer. The second issue raised...

Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (16 Dec 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...and during the following weeks we saw that variant have a devastating impact on case numbers in this State. In that context, we must be concerned about Omicron. We do not have all of the relevant data yet but it is important that the Government has taken the steps it has taken because we are better prepared now than most European countries for dealing with Omicron. Across Europe,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...for the Minister of State. He has been very good in engaging with me personally on the issue. Certainly during the process of the pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, for me online advertising, data protection and control and the engagement of political parties were three issues that came to the fore. Our academic colleagues made very valuable points to the effect that the commission seemed to...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: .... In the same way we tread the middle road, we will have to move away from mandatory hotel quarantine when it is right to do so. This should not be based on the name of the country but the data about the country. Many in the aviation sector have been frustrated but just 89 days ago Sinn Féin, People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and Labour all voted for the forced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...I benefit from the questions my colleagues have already asked so I will focus on certain areas. It appears from what Deputy Ó Broin said that, prior to recent weeks, Sinn Féin did not have a data protection officer or had not put a data protection impact assessment in place. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: So Sinn Féin is cross-referencing two different data sources without a data protection officer or a data protection impact assessment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: The Deputy said that and I take his answer. Sinn Féin did that without a data protection officer or a data protection impact assessment. I believe that is a breach of data, that that data was collected illegally and that it should be deleted. I move onto Sinn Féin Facebook strategy. Deputy Ó Broin states they are separate processes and I accept his bona fides on that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Sinn Féin did that without a data protection officer or a data protection impact assessment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Ó Broin suggests Sinn Féin do not have access to the data. I suggest Facebook's terms and conditions say one should use lawful means to collect data. We have said Sinn Féin does not have a data protection officer or a data protection impact assessment, which, I assert again, is not a lawful collection of data. Sinn Féin uses that data to microtarget ads. Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: ...of the publication of someone's personal information, for example, a third party taking out paid political advertisements, does Mr. Sunderland believe that this requirement would be in line with data protection? It is quite important to have that transparency. It exists for printed material. The fact that it is being done online may pose challenges for the operators but if it was not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Treatment (Abstractions) Bill 2020 and Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

Paul McAuliffe: That would place significant resource implications on the local authority with rolling registers and so on. We should take that into account and I imagine that there are also General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, and data protection concerns that would need to be ironed out.

Covid-19 Task Force: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: ...professionals in people's families, and empower them with the simple messaging that the vaccine is an additional tool and will be crucial in us tackling the virus. The issue of certification, data protection and the technology is very important. There are always restrictions with any IT system or data management system but they should not dictate the ambition of the roll-out programme....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2020: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Dec 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: I will concentrate on the new amendments to the Bill that relate to the tenancy protections. On the dates, it refers to tenants who at any stage between 1 August and 12 April 2021 were on pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, and so on. Why was 1 August chosen rather than 1 April? People might have been in receipt of the PUP between April and August and built up arrears but are not now...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: ...in a war. It demonstrates the difficulty that all of us had in predicting what was to come, which is the context of this report. The ninth recommendation of the committee, which relates to "Data relied upon by NPHET, its modelling code, as well as international evidence relied upon in making its recommendations", is an important one. We have asked much of the Irish people. The vast...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Human Rights and Civil Liberty Considerations (9 Sep 2020)

Paul McAuliffe: ...his or her payment terminated. The question is how we investigate that. I agree that there are media reports and people's stories which have emerged in the media which seem to be breaches of the data regulations, yet it is not clear how that happened. If the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, as it was then, carried out operations which were not in line with the...