Results 1-20 of 23 for data protection speaker:Claire Kerrane

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Claire Kerrane: No, on the basis of what the Minister said. I welcome the engagement with the Data Protection Commissioner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)

Claire Kerrane: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and briefing documentation they sent as well. Regarding the Department of Social Protection, obviously poverty and tackling and ultimately ending poverty is key and the Department of Social Protection would have the main role as I see it in reducing and ultimately ending poverty in Ireland. It may not be, but is it possible to get an update...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Claire Kerrane: ...more older people are solely reliant on the State pension in retirement and it is not enough as regards adequacy and levels of poverty now. The latest survey on income and living conditions, SILC, data show poverty levels among the over-65s increasing. We have to look at all of that in relation to the new system. On the point about lower levels of protections and rights that would be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way that her Department uses data modelling to assess the impact of social welfare payment rates; the way that data is disaggregated by demographics; the way that this is assessed with regard to poverty-proofing and addressing the cost of disability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59206/22]

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Claire Kerrane: .... I would like to see evidence-based social welfare rates when increases are announced. That way those who need it most will be targeted, and it will reduce poverty. If we do not have a social protection system that, at its core, protects people from poverty, it is a system that is not good enough. Far too many social welfare rates are set well below the poverty line....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...and I cannot even get hold of someone in Bus Éireann to get an update. I ring Athlone and Galway and am given a number for Dublin. When I ring Dublin, nobody can speak to me because of the general data protection regulation. The communication has been really poor. I do not know whether additional resources were put into Bus Éireann before the announcement on waiving school...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (14 Jun 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal framework that enables her Department to share information on persons seeking employment with private companies operating JobPath; the way this relates to with the Data Protection Act 2018; if there is any conflict with GDPR compliance where those persons have not provided their explicit consent to be contacted...

Food Price Rises: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...without and is evidenced by the steep increase in the number and range of families now seeking assistance from food banks; acknowledges that: — some of the drivers of rising prices are outside of this Government's control, but the actions necessary to protect people from its worst effects and to ensure the outworkings of international factors are experienced fairly and without...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...about their ability to meet their household energy costs; and 66% of lone parents are worried about their ability to meet their household energy costs in the next six months. This is very recent data. These are real life stories and situations that people find themselves in. For the past two years, MABS has been warning of the tsunami of debt that is coming. It warned about that on...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...welfare increases for two years. People who are on those higher social welfare rates have incomes of approximately €50 a month below the minimum essential standard of living, MESL, which would protect them from poverty. None of our social welfare rates do that. There has also been a consistent over-reliance on the fuel allowance. There is no link to the fuel allowance and people...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Claire Kerrane: ...temporary period; — the extension of Fuel Allowance eligibility to those who are in receipt of the WFP; — the establishment of a discretionary fund of €15 million, to assist households with utility debt; — the relaxation of the rules for the ENP, including the 30 hour working rule on a temporary basis; — the collection of data from Community Welfare...

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: .... In many cases, for lone parents that can be their only source of weekly income. In the case of the one-parent family payment, lone parents are helped in some way by the Department of Social Protection’s liable relatives unit, which seeks either a contribution from the non-custodial parent directly towards the Department of Social Protection essentially recouping part of the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (16 Feb 2022)

Claire Kerrane: .... That is a more important payment now, given that it is being relied on around high energy costs. I have raised it with the Minister before. I cannot understand why we cannot collect the data. I am not accusing, saying community welfare officers are not doing their job or that there are any issues there, but it would be important to collect the data on the number of people seeking...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1055. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of existing recipients that sought a review of their rate of the pandemic unemployment payment; the number that received an increase to their rate of pandemic unemployment as a result of review following the changes to the payment whereby the scheme was reopened due to updated public health guidelines; if she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Claire Kerrane: 1056. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 458 of 14 December 2021, the overall number of applications to the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit scheme; the number of successful applications to the Covid-19 enhanced illness benefit scheme; the average waiting time from application to approval for Covid-19 enhanced illness...

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

Claire Kerrane: ...in relation to the MESL. I would like to see a guarantee that we would get to the minimum essential standard of living. I know it cannot happen overnight, but it would at least give people certainty, protect them from poverty and allow them to meet a minimum essential standard of living. In the first instance, that is something any social protection system should do. It also goes...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (29 Sep 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 70. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there has been a review of the use of data centres particularly with regard to the protection of electricity supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47053/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (27 Jul 2021)

Claire Kerrane: 1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way a payment per person model will benefit those most in need of employment supports with regard to the request for tender for employment services in view of the proposed model generating income through client referral which will likely favour those who are job ready and the removal or merging of key service supports...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: The survey on income and living, SILC, data for 2019 are the latest data available on poverty. The Minister did not mention that deprivation increased in 2019, which is alarming given that was all pre-Covid. I appreciate the previous budget contained targeted measures, but we need to start looking at core social welfare rates that have not moved in the past two budgets. A few weeks ago,...

Social Welfare (Payment Order) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (5 May 2021)

Claire Kerrane: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the extension of the powers of the Liable Relatives Unit of the Department of Social Protection, to make a Determination Order in respect of Jobseekers Transitional Payment to one parent families, to include any necessary application to the District Court for a Payment Order, thus enabling the State to recoup,...