Results 121-140 of 14,211 for data protection

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (28 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: My Department is taking all necessary steps to manage the international protection process efficiently and effectively, while ensuring the integrity of the processes is maintained at all times.? The table below details the breakdown of International Protection applications from 1st January 2023 to 31st January 2024 by month* IP Applications Jan Feb Mar ...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Turf Cutting (28 Feb 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...applied to the turbary areas will affect the overall commonage parcel scores. While it is difficult to be definitive at this point, because my Department is continuing to process the relevant data, my Department’s judgement is that this system will not have a significant overall impact on the payments received by commonage shareholders, although there may be some exceptions. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (28 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 101, 102 and 103 together. The Department does not release data with respect to potential IPAS accommodation offers for security reasons and as a matter of operational policy. The International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS) carefully appraises each property that is offered for use as accommodation for International Protection (IP) applicants before...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of Irish folks beyond what was predicted in 2016. We have an increase in inward migration, again, driven by economic growth with people coming through work visa programmes and the international protection system. We also have a very unusual event in the war in Ukraine and a significant number of people are being given temporary protection. There must surely be a mechanism, if, within...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...in the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications? When we are talking about a basic underpinning of human dignity, that seems to me to sit more comfortably in the Department of Social Protection. I do not believe there can be any comparison in terms of the relative size of the Departments and the capacity of a Department to deliver multifaceted supports to people. Also, it...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Mairead Farrell: ...As a result of the housing crisis, we are reliant on people to open their doors. They can earn up to €14,000 per year tax free. Despite such tax reliefs, this type of accommodation enjoys almost no protection. For example, renters do not have access to notice periods and can be evicted overnight. I have been approached by students who were evicted overnight. It is a terrifying...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Oversight of RTÉ's Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues and Plans for Longer-term Support and Funding for Public Service Media: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Martin: ...legal constraints. Having consistently called for maximum transparency on these issues, I asked the DG to seek updated legal advice on the disclosure of key details with regard to the most recent severance payments to a number of senior executives from RTÉ. While the legal advice is clear that neither data protection law nor confidentiality clauses could be breached, I still believe...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (27 Feb 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...for approval shortly. The EU is currently finalising an EU Climate Risk assessment which is a fast-tracked and expert-driven assessment primarily based on a review and synthesis of existing data and knowledge from various sources. The assessment focuses specifically on complex climate risks such as cross-border, cascading and compound risks. The executive summary is expected to be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (27 Feb 2024)

Neale Richmond: ...more than 2billion downloads since its founding in 2016. In Ireland, TikTok established in 2020 and currently employs over 3,000 staff across a range of business functions including Trust and Safety; Data Protection and Privacy; and SMB (Small and Medium Business) Europe. Following a period of extremely rapid growth over the last 3-4 years, TikTok has confirmed that it is implementing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Coveney: ...to date information available on each destination. It is the longstanding policy of the Department not to publish details of individual transactions or the traders involved in these transactions in order to protect commercially sensitive information. Therefore, all export data is published in aggregated format. The Report under the Control of Exports Act 2008 covering the period...

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...