Results 1-13 of 13 for data protection speaker:Mark Wall

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (14 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: ...need one in every county. Ideally, we should have a lot more. From the figures that have been quoted tonight, since 1996, 87% of the women violently killed in Ireland knew their killers, according to data form Women's Aid. More than half of them were killed by a current or former partner. That is a really important fact for us all to reflect. We cannot just reflect on it; we need to...

Seanad: Sex Offenders (Amendment) (Coercive Control) Bill 2023: Second Stage (6 Dec 2023)

Mark Wall: ...perpetrator of that violence. Many of them, as has been said by all contributors, are in intimate relationships, as commented upon by the former State pathologist time and again recently. According to data from Women's Aid, some 87% of women violently killed in Ireland since 1996 knew their killer, and over half of them were killed by a current or former partner. That is a very important...

Seanad: Care Payments: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Mark Wall: ...for proposing the motion. As my colleague, Senator Sherlock, has said, we are dealing with 500,000 family carers. I have spoken previously to the Minister at the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands about the carer's allowance. We have had a number of debates on it. The simple fact is that we have many people in this country who do not...

Seanad: Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Jun 2023)

Mark Wall: ...concerns about how effective it can be. As is too often the case with the Government, the Bill’s provisions do not go far enough to make a real and meaningful impact on the industry and how it protects primary producers. Helpful and constructive amendments were put down by the Opposition in the Dáil that would have improved the Bill’s efficacy but they were struck down...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Mark Wall: ..., originally published in September 2020, which commits the Government to implementing a range of measures including tackling the problem of illegal dumping. On the specific advice received from the Data Protection Commissioner regarding the Bill, which I hope the Bill will address, the Minister of State said that was currently under consideration by the Department of the Environment,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2021)

Mark Wall: ...that it is a very scary experience to see a loved one going off in the back of an ambulance without knowing what has happened. I raise two issues with the Deputy Leader today. The first one is the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and the problem that some local authority members are having in going about their day-to-day business in trying to help as many of their own...

Seanad: European Digital Green Certificate: Statements (7 May 2021)

Mark Wall: ...this matter and the potential it offers us as an island nation. There is undoubtedly a palpable degree of optimism and hope in the country at the moment, and we must do everything we can to protect it. The vaccination roll-out has created a sea of optimism that is capturing more people every day. The discussion around the prospect of booking foreign holidays is happening in more homes...

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

Mark Wall: ...are competent authorities performing law enforcement functions when prosecuting offences under waste and litter legislation. The law enforcement directive applies to these activities. In 2018 the Data Protection Commission, DPC, inquired into the use of surveillance technologies by both the Garda Síochána and local authorities. This included an examination of the use of CCTV...

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

Mark Wall: ...that a problem exists and the Bill is a genuine attempt by the Labour Party to address those concerns. Senator Keogan raised a very important point, as did the Minister of State, about having data controllers. Senator Keogan has stated that it is a problem. It is a problem that we are getting through our joint policing committees. It is a problem and, again, it is something we can...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Illegal Dumping (1 Feb 2021)

Mark Wall: ...that a national campaign must come with enforcement. We have all read recent articles in which local authorities have been effectively warned not to use CCTV or other surveillance methods because of data protection issues.This problem is now so serious that I and others are looking at these data protection issues, and if legislation is needed, we will bring it forward. I urge the Minister...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Illegal Dumping (1 Feb 2021)

Mark Wall: ...recent weeks. I would appreciate if the Minister's Department could liaise with local authorities. In Kildare, for example, we face 40 or 50 incidents per week. I also wish to raise the issue of data protection. It seems to be a problem for local authorities, and it has been mentioned in a number of publications in recent weeks that local authorities are under pressure in respect of...

Seanad: Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (26 Jan 2021)

Mark Wall: .... Some of my colleagues have already asked about them but from my own experience and from the representations I have received, I would like to put them to her today as well. We need the promised data on the roll-out of the vaccination programme on a daily basis, as has been mentioned. It is simply not good enough that we must rely on tweets from the Minister for Health to get this...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Mark Wall: ...pandemic, their payment could, and probably will, be affected by this Bill if the destination country for their much-needed holiday is not on a green list. The Minister will be aware that the Data Protection Commissioner has asked the Department how it is getting the data to block benefit payments. Notwithstanding what the Minister said in her opening address, some key questions are...