Results 1-10 of 10 for data protection speaker:John Cummins

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

John Cummins: ...is why we introduced a €5 billion budget for housing this year. That is why we have seen supply ramp up to 32,700 homes last year. That is why we have seen the rolling three-month commencement data, over the last three months, reach 3,200. If that run rate continues for a 12-month period then that is over 38,000 homes. The trajectory is positive. That is why we have introduced...

Seanad: Local Government (Surveillance Powers in Relation to Certain Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Jan 2022)

John Cummins: ...from enjoying the beautiful landscape, towns, villages and cities right across the country. While I appreciate that the Department is currently working on legislation in this respect, which will data-proof all elements of CCTV monitoring in this respect, I think that bringing forward this Bill is a genuine attempt by the promoters to try to progress this matter in a speedy fashion. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

John Cummins: ...to continue to be inaccurate. The register includes the names of many people who are deceased, which causes difficulties, and people who are no longer being at the relevant address. Has the data impact assessment the Data Protection Commissioner mentioned when he was before us been completed? What are we looking at in terms of the process moving from one to the other? With regard to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

John Cummins: ...there is uncertainty, the easy thing to do is leave the person on the register because we do not want to disenfranchise anybody. However, we must have certainty. I ask that this is fed into the data protection impact assessment.

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

John Cummins: The breaches of data protection laws which have been reported in the media and confirmed by the Sinn Féin Party leader yesterday are extremely alarming. They raise fundamental questions about how secure the democratic system in this country is from outside interference. Some might dismiss this because they want the story to disappear but in the context of the electoral reform Bill it...

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

John Cummins: I thank the Cathaoirleach and I would appreciate if he might add on the time from the interruption. Is it because Sinn Fein wants to keep this voter system at arms length from the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, or because the secret database is a well-financed Sinn Féin asset and was not declared by the party in its Standards In Public Office Commission, SIPO, returns? This seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

John Cummins: ...is seriously wrong with the register. I do not believe that it can be fixed without utilising PPS numbers. That comes back to the point on which Deputy McAuliffe asked Mr. Sunderland whether the Data Protection Commission has a view. In 2008, the then commissioner gave evidence to the equivalent of our committee and said that in order to overcome legal obstacles to using PPS numbers or...

Seanad: Local Government (Use of CCTV in Prosecution of Offences) Bill 2021: Second Stage (5 Mar 2021)

John Cummins: ...reprimanded for using CCTV to monitor illegal dumping". The article read: Waterford City and County Council has been officially reprimanded for its use of CCTV to monitor public activity by the Data Protection Commissioner. The admonishment by the commissioner, which was handed down in October of last year and was carried out using its corrective powers under the General Data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Feb 2021)

John Cummins: ...on the commission? If that is not acceptable, what do they propose in regard to the make-up of the commission? Turning to the issue of the register, much of this will be teased out with the Data Protection Commissioner when she appears before the committee. However, when I was asking questions of the Department on this last week, I asked about how the two systems, involving both the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Treatment (Abstractions) Bill 2020 and Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (22 Jan 2021)

John Cummins: ...part of the legislation, especially in light of what has been reported from the courts in recent days. The online element and the simplicity of the forms is also important. I wish to focus on data protection matters and how we overcome them. In 2008 the then Data Protection Commissioner told the then Oireachtas committee that to overcome legal obstacles to using PPS numbers and other...