Results 1-18 of 18 for data protection speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...for some of our most vulnerable road users. The RSA is a firm believer in people dressing up in funny clothes, even on footpaths and in broad daylight. That is why it spent €240,000 on personal protective equipment, PPE, in November last year alone. In one month, it spent nearly a quarter of a million euro. I want to see the cost-benefit analysis for that type of expenditure....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fuel Poverty (7 Mar 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Deputy Naughten is Chair of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands. Excellent work is being done by that committee in the area of energy poverty. I have spoken strongly about the fact that we have responded in the short term and cash was the way to do that in the short term. We have long-term plans for the retrofitting of housing stock,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...in the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications? When we are talking about a basic underpinning of human dignity, that seems to me to sit more comfortably in the Department of Social Protection. I do not believe there can be any comparison in terms of the relative size of the Departments and the capacity of a Department to deliver multifaceted supports to people. Also, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the National Cyber Security Centre. I know it is difficult for the Taoiseach to elaborate on the work it does, and that is right and proper. I would also like to mention the resourcing of the Data Protection Commissioner. I say this with a view to 2024 being a year of elections. We know that roughly half of the world's population is going to the polls this year. I fully expect...

Report of Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands: Motion (1 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands entitled "Report on the progress of the Sustainable Development Goals 2023", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 7th December, 2023. I thank the Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Social Protection,...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...will not see you. For a vulnerable road user such as a cyclist, a pedestrian or a child walking to school, these are not trivial incidents because we are not encased in a tonne of steel that will protect us from an impact. National Child Safety Day was 6 October. On that day, the Road Safety Authority, RSA, distributed more than 40,000 high-visibility vests to preschools all over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...for in the Standing Orders for committees. This is the first time the committee has had a good run at nailing down the areas we and the Departments we are shadowing are responsible for. Social protection is an interesting case study in that is it probably the headline issue and the point at which most of the SDGs the Department is asked to track come into play. However, we also have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Local Link Transport Services: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...If they are taken out because of how our governance structure is organised in the Local Links, it takes time to build that capacity. Is there a need to have supports around requirements such as general data protection regulation, GDPR, and all of those new initiatives that roll out and cost hours? I see Mr. Boland nodding at that. I do not suggest a more centralised service because we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Nov 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with reference to the answer given by An Taoiseach in Questions on promised legislation on 26 October, the progress of work being undertaken by her Department with respect to Commitment 43 in the pathways to work strategy to "prepare a paper on options to modify the longer-term jobseeker's assistance payment by utilising...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...direction. I echo the comments of Deputy Stanley. One thing I particularly welcome is that local authorities will be empowered to use GDPR compliance technologies such as CCTV and drones to protect detect and prevent unsightly and illegal dumping and littering. I disagree with Deputy Smith on this point. It was used extremely effectively in Waterford. Many extremely scenic areas...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Waste Management (14 Dec 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...'s comments and very much welcome the Minister of State's commitment to legislating for this. Waterford City and County Council was one of seven local authorities that were reprimanded by the Data Protection Commissioner on the basis the Litter Pollution Act 1997 and the Waste Management Act 1996 did not provide legal grounds for its actions. It is a case of legislation having to catch...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Environmental Investigations (17 Jun 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister of State of taking the matter. I know he is not the line Minister for the Department but I want to draw his attention to the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, catchments report issued this week on the assessment of catchments and the reductions in nitrogen concentrations to achieve water quality objectives. The short synopsis of the document is that we have a...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to proof of vaccination. I am conscious this may not always be possible in practice so safeguards for such circumstances must be teased out and addressed. I also highlight the question of data protection and echo the concerns of my EU counterparts in highlighting that there should be no trade-off between people's data protection rights and the facilitation of safe travel. We need...

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...for some sort of easy way out. I welcome the role of the SEC. Whatever else about the leaving certificate, it is impartial and transparent, and the SEC's role is important in that regard. I also welcome the protections offered for teachers, principals and boards of management. It is essential that teachers be free to make these decisions and educational assessments free from any...

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...issues has often come at the insistence of Europe rather than through leadership on our own part from this House. I refer, for example, to the water framework directive and the general data protection regulation, GDPR, which is among the most important and robust EU legislation in the last decade. We have also known peace here in our own country and across the EU and have...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Mar 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...spring up in reaction to the very practical barriers that are preventing low- and middle-income countries from using their own facilities to develop the vaccine. These barriers mainly relate to knowledge and data, intellectual property and appropriate technology. One initiative seeking to address these barriers is the Covid technology access pool, C-TAP, launched by the Government of...

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to come back on my questions. There is no doubt that the pandemic has had an extraordinary and adverse impact on our labour market as well as broader society. Our response in terms of social protection measures has had to be equally extraordinary. As the Minister detailed earlier, the cost to the Exchequer for the PUP is in excess of €5.5 billion and climbing all the while. This...