Results 1-20 of 34 for data protection speaker:Lynn Boylan

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...supplies, closing off roads, resulting in farmers having to purchase water tanks as the river remained contaminated for some time afterwards. There are reasons we have environmental legislation. It is to protect our habitats, water courses and biodiversity, and to protect communities. In 2004, ESB International and the construction company were convicted of pollution offences. They...

Seanad: Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...Sinn Féin has been calling for since earlier this year. With regard to the AI intelligence council, it needs to deliver a dual mandate of ensuring that we harness the positive powers of AI but, at the same time, protect workers and society from the negative aspects of the technology. It is disappointing that the motion does not have a focus on workers. Greater focus should...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...is the absence of a prohibition on selling nicotine inhaling products to children, which Part 3 of the Bill addresses by outlining related offences. This section is crucial, with several provisions aimed at protecting children from exposure to these products. Section 27 prohibits selling these products to children, while section 28 extends the prohibition to events aimed at or attended...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...on vulnerable road users like pedestrians and people on bikes. Campaigns by the likes of the Road Safety Authority are framed in terms of responsibility for those vulnerable cyclists and pedestrians to protect themselves. There is a whiff of victim-blaming by some of the campaigns. Cyclists are told to wear helmets, reflective gear and to be aware. The campaigns are rarely about the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (14 Jun 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...roimh an Aire Stáit. I want to raise the need for Government policy to incorporate the contributions that people on different incomes make to the climate crisis. In order to do that, good quality data is essential. The climate justice question is often framed as the difference between wealthy countries in the global north like Ireland and America that have high average emissions...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Safety Authority (19 Apr 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...áit go dtí an Teach. I wish to raise an important issue of road safety. As the Minister of State will probably be aware – or perhaps he is not – the Road Safety Authority, RSA, does not release data about collisions to researchers and it has not done so for years. We need better research on road safety to save lives and the key indicator of safety on a road is...

Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (9 Mar 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...xe9;in will not oppose this Bill but we will put on the record a deep frustration with the process. It is not good to rush through any legislation but especially legislation that dilutes environmental protection measures. It is shocking that we found ourselves in such a spectacular mess when it comes to electricity generation and demand. We had an interesting private meeting of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Prices (1 Feb 2023)

Lynn Boylan: ...the Regulation of Utilities, CRU, to implement a subsidy on a permanent basis. The instruction was for domestic users to subsidise the network tariffs of large energy users. Large energy users include data centres and pharmaceutical companies. Those entities are very profitable. The plan was basically an instruction to the CRU to rebalance things in favour of large energy. It was...

Seanad: Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...to get a handle on supply and demand is a fiasco at this stage, as is the fact that more emergency legislation is having to be passed by the Houses. We all know our planning laws are fundamental to the protection of citizens and the environment against poor development, and we know what happens when shortcuts are taken. It is quite something. We must all acknowledge that we are now...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...Cup final. We are aware that migrant workers in many countries are the lowest paid and have no workers' rights. It is particularly the case in Qatar. The construction industry has failed to protect the 2-million-strong migrant workforce. When we see Qatar's grim death toll revealed in the official data, it is really striking that the causes of death include falls from a height and...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “acknowledges that the Government:” and substitute the following: “- has failed to protect households and business from energy price rises adequately; - has failed to adequately target the response to those who need it most and instead gave an energy rebate to owners of holiday homes, vacant properties and...

Seanad: Energy: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...why we are facing blackouts in this country. We know it is because the demand for electricity could outstrip supply. We have arrived at that position because we have rolled out the red carpet for data centres. While it is a Green Party Minister sitting in the Chamber today defending Government policy, we all know that Fine Gael for the past ten years has had a policy of not asking any...

Seanad: EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...2022 because we are at risk of the lights going out. We all know the elephant in the room is that rising demand for electricity continues to outstrip the pace of generation and the extra demand is coming from data centres, whose demand increased by 144% between 2015 and 2020. The insatiable demand is, of course, the natural outworking of Fine Gael policy. For years, Fine Gael was open...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I raise the concerning story that broke overnight about what appears to be the illegal retention of data by the Department of Social Protection. The report published by the Journal.ie today of an investigation carried out by Noteworthy.ie came on foot of a complaint made by Mr. Martin McMahon. It appears data on journeys undertaken by holders of free travel passes were held by the...

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...but receptive. Alongside men needing to step up, so too does the political system. To tackle a problem, the first step we need to take is to realise the scale of that problem. We need better data on gender-based crime and a sexual violence survey. We need full implementation of the domestic homicide review. As others have said, having somewhere to go if one is experiencing domestic...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2022)

Lynn Boylan: ...instead to energy efficiency upgrades in enterprises, which include public sector buildings. The Government, again, does not make it through this audit unscathed. In fact, no financial data were available. The State did not plan any funds and it had no financial information to report for enterprise energy efficiency projects. The EU programme allocated €2.4 billion in total...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Energy Infrastructure (7 Dec 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...on this, is the proposal to open up these gas-powered plants and how it leaves citizens liable to compensation claims under the Energy Charter Treaty. These generation facilities will have the protection of the investor-state dispute mechanism within the Energy Charter Treaty, which allows the companies to sue governments for taking climate action and to claim very significant...

Seanad: Companies (Emission Reporting) Bill 2021: Second Stage (24 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...on climate issues have seen that the focus on individual actions is far too strong on encouraging the use of keep cups and other tiny efforts. The hypocrisy of that approach is made clear by the ongoing data centre debacle. We have a Government encouraging ordinary people to use less electricity while it offers massive tax incentives to tech companies to ramp up consumption through data...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ..., the Pillar to Post report, which warned of rising household debt that has built up over the pandemic. At least 36,000 payment breaks have been granted during the pandemic but due to a lack of data that might just be the tip of the iceberg. We need emergency measures to address the perfect storm we now face this winter. Sinn Féin called for a discretionary fund to be put in place...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Lynn Boylan: ...issue of consultation. We must not fall into the trap, because Equinor is saying that it is about the regulatory framework. We have a marine framework coming. That needs to happen. The marine protected zones also need to happen. However, we cannot allow wind companies to try to undermine the process in the meantime. I would like to finish by encouraging all the Members of the House to...