Results 1-20 of 126 for data protection speaker:Norma Foley

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...and is being provided to former residents of mother and baby and county home institutions under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme. Section 4 also provides a legal basis for the transfer and processing of relevant data by the Department and the Health Service Executive to enable the delivery of these supports. It also requires that such processing is subject to suitable and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Homeless Persons Supports (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...model, announced in March 2022, aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The model takes into consideration the significant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (20 Mar 2024)

Norma Foley: ...divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit data, school enrolment data and information on residential development activity is used for this purpose. Additionally, Project Ireland 2040 population and housing targets inform the Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Social Protection, and my Department's own school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department has a number of robust processes and procedures in place to enhance and protect the security of its data centres and these are reviewed on a regular basis. For operational and security reasons, my Department has been previously advised by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) not to disclose details of systems and processes which could in any way compromise my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Social Protection, and my Department's own school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Children in Care (25 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: .../fp/fp-eaacc/educationa lattendanceandattainmentofchildrenincare2018-2023/. The report is part of the CSO Frontier Series and may use new methods which are under development and / or data sources which may be incomplete, for example, new administrative data sources. In this report, of the 9,744 children in care during January 2023 or children who left care since April 2018, 77% were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (23 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: As stated in a recent reply, my Department shares data with other organisations for varied purposes such as compliance with employee tax obligations, organisation of the State exams, to support children with special educational needs or those at risk of educational disadvantage, in connection with legal proceedings, reporting of child protection concerns, provision of school transport, audit...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department does not hold a schedule of datasets shared with other bodies covering the past 20 years to date. Where my Department shares personal data with another organisation, it does so on the basis of the lawful grounds set out in Article 6 (and Article 9 if applicable) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 i.e. with the consent of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (17 Jan 2024)

Norma Foley: ...identification model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The extension of the DEIS programme to new schools is just one...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (14 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: ...the public to apply for positions advertised on the stateboards.ie website. Although the information requested by the Deputy may be available as part of the appointment process, under General Data Protection Regulation guidelines my Department does not have access to this information once the appointment has been made. Therefore, the specific information sought by the Deputy relating...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (12 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: ...being educated in a place other than in a recognised school. In response to the Deputy’s query, an age breakdown by county of children on the Section 14 Register is outlined in the table below. For data protection purposes, numbers less than five are suppressed to mitigate the risk of identifying specific children and young people within the data provided. *Denotes a number less...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (6 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: ...model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The development of this model involved an extensive body of work by the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (5 Dec 2023)

Norma Foley: ...model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The development of this model involved an extensive body of work by the DEIS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (30 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...identification model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The development of this model involved an extensive body of work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...identification model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The development of this model involved an extensive body of work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (16 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...identification model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The development of this model involved an extensive body of work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...identification model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The development of this model involved an extensive body of work...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...identification model aimed to identify those schools with the highest levels of disadvantage or the highest proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds within a school using the school’s enrolment data and national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index which is publicly available. The expansion of the DEIS programme in 2022 was done on the basis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (8 Nov 2023)

Norma Foley: ...wheelchair access. Medmark therefore has an arrangement in place with a neighbouring building in this location to readily facilitate assessments to those with mobility issues on request. Medmark is governed by the Data Protection Acts 1988 to 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and has confirmed that it is committed to complying with its obligations regarding any...