Results 161-180 of 14,224 for data protection

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...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

...but we have committed to providing the figures to the LTACC on an annual basis because there is a significant number of Traveller families in homeless accommodation in the Dublin region. The data that are provided by the DRHE give us that point-in-time information which is on the date of the count. A total of 135 households that were accessing emergency accommodation in the Dublin...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Compliance with the Nitrates Directive and Implications for Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

...that nitrates from dairy farming are negatively impacting water quality, both surface and groundwater, and that we need a different approach to mitigate that impact. In 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, identified several catchments of concern for elevated nitrogen concentrations in the south and south-east, including the River Bandon, River Slaney, River Lee and the River...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

Richard Bruton: ...protectionism occurring and I wonder whether that will impact some of the bigger players that IDA Ireland has. There is a need to seriously regulate artificial intelligence in the interests of protecting human endeavour. We will become a centre of the oversight of any new rules and I wonder how that will impact on our approach. The chairperson designate mentioned sustainability. I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Safeguarding: Safeguarding Ireland (21 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...National Safeguarding Ireland CLG, which is a registered charity trading as Safeguarding Ireland. Safeguarding Ireland’s primary objectives are to promote safeguarding of adults who may be vulnerable; protect them from all forms of abuse by persons, organisations and institutions; and develop a national plan for promoting their welfare. This is achieved by promoting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...trusted sources of information but we also have a big job to do. We have the collaboration of a number of stakeholders in this country as well. We have access to our colleagues in Coimisiún na Meán, the Data Protection Commission, the Department of housing and the Department of the Taoiseach. The job of all of these Department's is to support us in our job of dealing with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Feb 2024)

Josepha Madigan: ...available number of SET posts in line with each school’s profile of need. The model makes an allocation on the basis of a number of inputs, including enrolment numbers. It also uses school-level data from standardised tests in order to reflect relative levels of overall need. It seeks to distribute teaching resources in the fairest possible manner, taking into account quality,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 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...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: That is the rationale. I have put forward plenty of data on why it is absolutely necessary. I will certainly press this amendment. There has been no case put forward for the differentiation in approach under the Bill regarding the regulation of short-term lettings outside rent pressure zones. It is deeply unfair to communities affected by the lack of regulation that this section of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...the National Cyber Security Centre. I know it is difficult for the Taoiseach to elaborate on the work it does, and that is right and proper. I would also like to mention the resourcing of the Data Protection Commissioner. I say this with a view to 2024 being a year of elections. We know that roughly half of the world's population is going to the polls this year. I fully expect...

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I will request that information. I will see whether I can find out from the CRU or my Department how many data centres are seeking direct connection to the gas grid. It is a fair question. The approval I have from the Government for this legislation is simply for the integration of the current activities of Ervia into GNI. It does not provide for the board to engage in any new function or...

Seanad: Special Measures in the Public Interest (Derrybrien Wind Farm) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Feb 2024)

Lynn Boylan: ...supplies, closing off roads, resulting in farmers having to purchase water tanks as the river remained contaminated for some time afterwards. There are reasons we have environmental legislation. It is to protect our habitats, water courses and biodiversity, and to protect communities. In 2004, ESB International and the construction company were convicted of pollution offences. They...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

...safety code. We also have it as a supplementary measure, that safety by design would be taken on board by the platforms in the design of their products so that in the same way that they would do a data protection impact assessment or a privacy impact assessment during design of a new product or service to ensure it is GDPR-compliant, a similar safety impact assessment would be undertaken...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (20 Feb 2024)

Heather Humphreys: The introduction of an auto-enrolment retirement savings system is a Programme for Government commitment, and a key priority for me as Minister for Social Protection. Last year, I published 'The Design Principles for Ireland’s Automatic Enrolment (AE) Retirement Savings System', which sets out the new system in detail. Under AE, employees will have access to a savings scheme,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (20 Feb 2024)

Michael McGrath: ...Nos. 212 to 214, inclusive, together. The Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO) plays a vital role for consumers of financial services in Ireland, as part of a robust financial consumer protection framework. The statutory functions of the FSPO are set out in the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017. This governing legislation empowers the FSPO to investigate...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (20 Feb 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Coastal protection and localised flooding issues are matters, in the first instance, for each local authority to investigate and address. To assist Local Authorities in managing the coastline for coastal erosion, the Office of Public Works (OPW) has undertaken a national assessment of coastal erosion (including erosion rates) under the Irish Coastal Protection Strategy Study (ICPSS) and the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Peadar Tóibín: ...these same children to be lost to abuse again. I have asked Tusla to state how many children have reported sexual abuse while in State care. It has told me it simply does not record that information centrally. Other data shown to Aontú indicate that over 200 children have died either in State care or known to State care in the past ten years. Thirty-eight of these have taken their...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

...on the very positive contributions that migrants make. Of course, 2022 also saw the invasion of Ukraine, which posed an unprecedented humanitarian challenge. Following the triggering of the temporary protection directive in early March that year, the Department moved quickly to establish our Ukraine response team. Within a few days, with support from the DAA and working closely with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Feb 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...with conditions prohibiting bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to, a single purchaser. Despite suggestions that institutional investors are crowding out prospective owner-occupiers, official data indicates that institutional investors still make up an important but relatively small proportion of annual residential property purchases. While the Government will continue to keep this...