Results 1-12 of 12 for data protection speaker:Martin Browne

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Martin Browne: Data from the 2022 survey on income and living conditions shows that those living in one-adult households with children under 18 years were among the groups most likely to experience enforced deprivation, at over 43% compared to nearly 18% of the population as a whole. The treatment of child maintenance payments within the Department of Social Protection as means, and the requirement to make...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Martin Browne: ...will have longer term consequences for some. That is a matter of extreme urgency and a disgrace under the Government's watch. I appeal to it to act now and instruct the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to investigate possible price gouging and to promote and protect the interests and welfare of consumers. I have been involved in debates on the Agricultural and Food...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: ...persons. Nobody is arguing against the need to tackle antimicrobial or antiparasitic resistance. Rural Ireland and the quality of the food we consume in the State are dependent on the protection of these medicines. We need to take an approach that works for rural Ireland’s economy, that works for animal health, and that works to ensure the viability of the medication we are...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: ...; as they carry out their work. A measure that can help to avoid this kind of assault from happening is important for gardaí and the effective policing of the communities that count on them. It also has the capacity to provide protection to our gardaí from spurious campaigns to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, thereby saving on resources and avoiding...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: 116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that data is not available for the average wait times for additional needs' payments; and her views on whether having this data would better inform the Government of any potential issues with the system. [3436/23]

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Martin Browne: ...the prices they receive and the conditions to which they are subject. The purpose of the Bill is to address that and give producers of agricultural products the certainty they need that they are protected in the marketplace. I welcome the changes made since the joint committee discussed the general scheme and that the Minister took on board some of the proposals made by Sinn...

Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Feb 2022)

Martin Browne: ...not deliver real change because we need to know the extent to which these problems prevail within the Defence Forces. There is a legal and moral obligation to ensure those who serve the State, offer protection to others at home and preserve peace abroad are themselves protected. The Offices of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces is not an effective mechanism for dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Nov 2021)

Martin Browne: When officials from the Department were last before us, I asked whether we knew which types of operator were not compliant with the European Union (Good Agriculture Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations, or GAP regulations, and whether a line had been drawn in terms of how high-risk areas were targeted to ensure that there was no undue imposition on farms. I was told that, regarding...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (6 Oct 2021)

Martin Browne: ...the Marine if the current felling site notice which has to be erected following the granting of a felling licence and during harvesting operations at a location is in compliance with all relevant data protection legislation given the details that are made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48569/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Martin Browne: ...has given far too much discretion and emergency powers to the Minister for Health. The extraordinary measures we have all been subject to for more than a year now can only work if those data which inform them and the reasons they are deemed necessary are fully transparent, properly analysed and openly debated. Sinn Féin has been consistent in pushing this belief. This was...

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

Martin Browne: ...allow a robust debate in the House? He is still intent on transferring the records to Tusla, despite the opposition of survivors and campaigners. Sinn Féin's amendments seek to ensure that the database and records will be retained by the Minister. The general data protection regulation, GDPR, does not prevent this. The amendments will also provide that an appropriate and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Herd Data (15 Sep 2020)

Martin Browne: ...the Department has done is to affect the welfare of individual farmers by sending out letters, and many of them believe this leads to the devaluation of their herds. This was all done without any protection being offered to them at a time farm families are really struggling, which is accepted by all in the House. One of the biggest worries they have concerns the implications of GDPR....