Results 1-9 of 9 for data protection speaker:Mary Fitzpatrick

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...: - Housing for All is successfully supporting a significantly increased supply of new homes, with a record 32,695 new homes completed in 2023, a 10 percent increase on 2022 and the highest number of new homes delivered in 15 years, exceeding the 2023 target of 29,000 by almost 13 percent; - the latest annual data on the number of Commencements Notices (residential construction starts)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...: the use of the electoral register and political advertising. I thank the witnesses for their statements. I understand from them that Sinn Féin is the only party that operates a centralised database and combines that database with online political advertising. I heard what Deputy Ó Broin said. It is a cloud-based database. I guess it is hosted on servers internationally in...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...raised more questions for us which we, as a committee, will have to take on in the next stages of our work. I direct that comment, I suppose, to us as a committee. Specifically, in terms of the Data Protection Commissioner, the deputy commissioner, Mr. Sunderland, referenced on a number of occasions the data protection impact assessments. I completely agree with him, in terms of a...

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

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...a major frustration to go to so much effort, detect the dumping and bring someone to court only to have the case amount to no improvement. Senator Byrne will speak to the technicalities of the Bill and the data protection issues, so I will leave those to him. In terms of education and awareness, signs on lamp posts tell people to pick up their dogs' poo. The dogs do not read and their...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 Dec 2020)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., his constituents and survivors all over the world. When the Minister came into the House in October of this year, he brought forward legislation to prevent the destruction of the records and the database from the commission of investigation. My colleague and I supported that legislation because we thought it was critically important that the database and records that had been assembled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals and Departmental Priorities: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (3 Nov 2020)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...the Minister's acknowledgement that the matter was mishandled and his commitment to having us work more constructively and responsibly in the future. I voted for the legislation. I voted to protect the database so survivors could have access to their own information and so the report for which they have all waited so long can be published. I did so very deliberately. I heard all the...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2020)

Mary Fitzpatrick: .... I am encouraged that he is talking to the Attorney General to try to find a way to accommodate some of the reasonable, fair and legitimate requests.We all agree it is very important that all the data, documents and records are preserved and protected unredacted. It is essential for integrity that the records are kept in one set. Then, if there is to be a separate database, as is...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Mary Fitzpatrick: ..., is of the State's creation, and it is really important that the State deal with it and apologise. As a Senator today, I apologise for my part. I welcome the action the Minister is taking to protect and preserve the records, which is vital. Nevertheless, we live in an era of data and it is important that the data be retained intact and unredacted, in one complete set.I appreciate that...