Results 1-20 of 76 for data protection speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...has no accommodation strategy, even while big public buildings like Baggot Street Hospital sit scandalously idle nearby. The Government is not even on top of the situation when it comes to reliable data on immigration. The Minister for Justice has been unable to give accurate figures on migration. It is extraordinary to rely apparently on anecdote when we see so much disinformation...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ..., as are more evidence-based policies and planning to improve road safety. I wish to raise a specific concern I have. The Road Safety Authority has not been able to share road traffic collision data with councils for six years, apparently due to GDPR concerns. I understand that tonight on "Prime Time" we will hear experts describe local authority road engineering teams, which...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...simply too low, and not delivering the necessary number of affordable homes; — as we approach the one-year anniversary of the lifting of the temporary no-fault eviction ban, Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) data shows 19,011 eviction notices were issued in 2023, and 61 per cent of these were due to the sale of the property; — homelessness continues to reach record highs,...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...text. It is the idea I mentioned of deeds as well as words. The Minister rightly pointed out that ratification of the optional protocol was important, but so are some of the measures recommended by the citizens’ assembly in the chapters on care and social protection. As the Minister stated, some are in progress and some are being implemented, but there are others that still...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...members of the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality. It is not a coincidence that of the 45 recommendations on gender equality made by the committee, 16 related specifically to care and social protection. We also made a recommendation on constitutional change in respect of care, which I will speak about in a moment. The reason 16 of the recommendations related to care and social...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...delivery of the Carers Guarantee will allow Family Carers Ireland to deliver a core basket of services to family carers across the country, regardless of where they live; - Government spending on social protection schemes, public services and taxation, which broadly contribute to the Care Economy, has increased significantly in recent years from €8.8 billion in 2019 to a projected...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...half of the properties are rented in the private market. Large numbers of people, including families, are renting privately, many of whom are in fear of losing their homes because of the lack of protections for renters. They are deeply fearful of notices to quit at this time because they cannot even find somewhere to live, never mind whether it is affordable. A sizeable proportion of...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Sep 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...decision-makers. For us in the Labour Party, as the party of the trade union movement, that is absolutely the case. It is vital that things like pay, pensions and workers' rights more generally are protected, and transitions of this sort must be seamless. That the Bill makes specific provision to ensure workers’ remuneration and superannuation are protected is also a welcome...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (28 Jun 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...such as Amnesty International, the ICCL, and others, as well as by a Government Deputy just now, in respect of the import of the amendment. It would make a significant change in terms of the powers of the Data Protection Commissioner. The definition of confidential information has an overly broad ambit. It refers to: "information the disclosure of which could, in the opinion of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...about the accountability of social media companies. I think everyone is aware that Meta has just been fined a record amount of €1.2 billion for breaches relating to the transfer of personal data, the largest ever EU privacy fine. The Date Protection Commissioner disagreed with the decision in this regard but was overruled by other EU countries. This comes in the wake of the...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...see committed to in November. The strength of our report is we were able to devise and propose a precise wording for each of the referendums. The referendums would seek to do three things. First, they would insert express protection for gender equality in the Constitution in our equality guarantee, as well as for the principles of non-discrimination and equality generally. Second, they...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the opportunity to speak for the Labour Party on the Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023. Our party whip, Deputy Duncan Smith, has already expressed frustration at the fact the progress of this and other legislation relating to energy has been compressed into such a short timeframe. Indeed, during the debate on the Development...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...in other towns and cities around the country. I will table a parliamentary question on another matter that was raised with me concerning healthcare, which is the need for a review of the use of data collected in hospital laboratories around Ireland and what safeguards are put in place relating to data protection.

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...be democratic accountability. There are four key principles I want to see brought in. They are currently lacking and this Bill would address them. One of them is the need to ensure adequate protection for the environment. That is absolutely huge. Clearly, as the Minister of State and others have pointed out, this is a biosphere. We have a UNESCO designation for the bay and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the real engagement, interest and commitment the members of this committee have towards seeing the implementation of the citizens' assembly recommendations, particularly those on care and social protection that we have addressed today. I thank the witnesses for their extensive expertise and knowledge and their knowledgeable and clear answers to our detailed questions. There are a number...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...a real fear about rising energy bills are forcing many people to take impossible decisions between heating and eating, and putting so many individuals and households in fear. In June this year, ESRI data revealed that energy inflation had increased the number of households in energy poverty to 29%, the highest recorded rate, with a concern that this will increase further over the...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...to address the issue in a meaningful way. The Iberian model brought forward by our sister social democratic parties in Spain and Portugal has shown the type of proactive measures social democratic and left-wing governments can take to protect their citizens from the fallout of Putin’s brutal war on Ukraine. At the very least, domestic electricity credits should feature clawback...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...to discuss recommendations 42 to 45, inclusive, of the citizens' assembly, which have regard to the gender equality principle in law and policy, with a particular focus on equality budgeting and data gathering on gender equality. I warmly welcome our witnesses. From the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, we have Ms Caroline O’Loughlin, assistant principal officer in...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...the right to rent an unfurnished apartment or home, which is the norm in other European cities. Our Bill would also end no-fault evictions and restrict the grounds on which a landlord can end a tenancy. What we are seeking is greater protections for renters. That in itself, particularly that three-year rent freeze, will help to address the cost of living for many, ensuring then that...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Nov 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ..., how should we, as a committee, proceed in our recommendations at this pre-legislative scrutiny stage? Should we say that there is no requirement - in fact, it is in breach of the general data protection regulation - for us to be erecting these cumbersome bureaucratic obstacles, as I have described them? Should we sweep that away and start with a clean slate in terms of the right to...