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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: As the Deputy may be aware, in order to plan for school provision and analyse the relevant demographic data, my Department divides the country into 314 school planning areas and utilises a Geographical Information System to anticipate school place demand. Information from a range of sources, including Child Benefit Data from the Department of Social Protection, and my Department's own school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Norma Foley: My Department has a number of robust processes and procedures in place to enhance and protect the security of its data centres and these are reviewed on a regular basis. For operational and security reasons, my Department has been previously advised by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) not to disclose details of systems and processes which could in any way compromise my...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...available for housing, with €5.1 billion in investment available in 2024 o deliver new homes. Supply continues to improve in our housing market. A range of indicators suggest this: The latest annual data on the number of Commencements Notices (residential construction starts) published on 18 January, 2024 show that almost 33,000 (32,801) new homes were commenced in 2023.The...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Cormac Devlin: 325. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location of the data centre or centres used by her Department; the reason it was chosen; the distance it is from her Department’s offices; if she will identify the centres used by each agency under her Department’s aegis; and the distance these data centres are to their offices; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drug and Alcohol Testing (27 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...39 50 59 59 Grand Total 148 171 216 196 * 2024 figures are for the period 1 January 2024 to 25 February 2024 inclusive. For data protection reasons, figures less than 10 cannot be reported on, and it is for this reason that figures have been given per Garda Region rather than per Garda Division. It is also for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (27 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware Department is unable to publish any information that would identify any person as being an international protection applicant. This is a separate matter to the law dealing with data protection matters more generally. My officials and I are legally obliged, under Section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015, to ensure that the identity of any person who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: My Department use several sources of data to safeguard protected bird species, in carrying out its functions in deciding on afforestation licence applications. The following table details the sources used to generate the new bird related layers on iFORIS. - Layer Source 1 Hen Harrier Red Areas (HLNAs) layer (Layer not available on iNET,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department is obligated to maintain the highest security, and operational, standards to protect citizen’s data and access to services. In this context, the Department has been advised by the National Cyber Security Centre not to disclose details which could, in any way, identify or help target potential vulnerabilities in Departmental Cybersecurity arrangements.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Centres (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: .... The Department of Education is the lead partner for the provision of IT services for both Departments and has advised that a number of robust processes and procedures are in place to enhance and protect the security of its data centres and these processes are reviewed on a regular basis. For operational and security reasons, my Department and the Department of Education have been...

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...as expert archival and technical infrastructure and skills to ensure that the material is safely managed. It is also imperative that all projects adhere to best archiving practices, including the correct management and storage of the data. This is vital to ensure the longevity of the archived material. I refer to all of this just to give a flavour of the scale of the digitisation and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (22 Feb 2024)

Emer Currie: ...but it does have to evolve. In my view, our existing operating model, a model which needs to be developed further and further defined, has particular positive legacy characteristics that we should protect. One of them is the variety of providers that we currently have. We have large-scale providers, chains, medium-sized and small providers, childminders and a network of neighbourhood...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (22 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...communities to ensure everyone feels safe. The legal framework which provides for the operation of community CCTV requires that any proposed scheme must:be approved by the local Joint Policing Committee,have a data protection impact assessment prepared,have the prior support of the relevant local authority, which must act as a joint data controller with An Garda Síochána and a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (22 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...and girls, and that many people are forced into prostitution through trafficking, drug addiction, homelessness and poverty. A key purpose for the 2017 Sexual Offences Act was to provide additional protection to persons involved in prostitution, especially vulnerable persons and victims of human trafficking. It allows those engaged in prostitution to provide information to Gardaí,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Usage (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...nitrates derogation. In 2023, approximately 7,300 Irish farmers sought to avail of a nitrate’s derogation. Irish water quality is relatively good compared to other EU Member States. However, Environment Protection Agency (EPA), data shows nutrient levels are too high in many of our waters. I acknowledge farmers have embraced a significant number of changes in 2022 and 2023...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...agency, has led the implementation of this strategy, in partnership with the National Inshore Fisheries Forum (NIFF) and with the support of my Department, the Marine Institute, the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority and other agencies. In contributing to the actions set out in the strategy, BIM carried out an Inshore Census during 2023 with the aim of gathering more detailed data on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...farm incomes, as a competitive balance in the market for beef animals and as an outlet for dairy calves. Such trade can only be sustainable on the basis of a strong regulatory regime which protects the welfare and the quality of the animals transported. While the trade in and transport of animals is a private commercial activity it is heavily regulated by European and Irish national law...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...for Low Emission Slurry Spreading (LESS) has reduced the reliance on chemical Nitrogen and allowed farmers to maximise slurry use on farm, this has also helped significantly reduce Ammonia emissions. Data from the Teagasc National Farm Survey shows that 75% of average dairy farms and 25% of average cattle farms spread slurry via LESS, respectively. Under the Nitrates Directive there is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...is a set of Statutory Management Requirements (SMR's) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) standards included in Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan. SMRs 1 & 2 focus on the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates and phosphates. Farmers are required to maintain records on their holdings that include an estimation of the annual fertiliser...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Waste (22 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...food waste. However funding alone will not help us achieve the ambitious food waste reduction targets. The achievement of the target will involve a range of issues including behavioural change, awareness initiatives, data gathering on levels of food waste and monitoring and evaluation. My Department is working with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Nos. 252 to 254, inclusive, together. Since the outset of the war in Ukraine in early 2022, Ireland has provided accommodation to over 100,000 people between those fleeing Ukraine and International Protection applicants. This includes approximately 74,000 Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) from Ukraine who required State supported accommodation and approximately 27,500...

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