Results 181-200 of 204 for data protection speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (3 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., which is under the remit of the Department of Justice. Matters relating to environmental enforcement are a matter for the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications. Local authorities are data controllers in their own right, with their own data protection officers appointed. My Department has no role in advising local authorities, either directly or through the County and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Consultation Process (21 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Dingle Hub (Brendan Tuohy) 2 Cavan County Council  3 ESB 4 CCMA 5 Irish Wildlife Trust   6 Nautilus Data Technologies Ltd 7 Inland Fisheries Ireland  8 Meath County Council 9 An Forum...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (20 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: The Irish hare [Lepus timidus hibernicus] is listed on Annex V of the E.U. Habitats Directive [92/43/EEC] and is also protected under the Wildlife Acts [1976 and 2000]. The species is considered to be in favourable conservation status. Hare coursing in Ireland is administered by the Irish Coursing Club (ICC) which is a body set up under the Greyhound Industry Act, 1958. Statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board (7 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: One the main roles of the RTB is to increase compliance across all of its regulatory functions. A core part of protecting the rights of landlords and tenants and supporting a well-functioning rental sector is to ensure that people are aware of their legal obligations to avoid disputes and where they arise, that there is an effective Dispute Resolution Service and robust enforcement powers. ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (6 Oct 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: With effect from 1 August 2020, the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020 introduces protections for those tenants who are facing rent arrears and, as a result, are at risk of losing their tenancy. If a tenant’s ability to pay rent has been impacted by Covid-19 and the tenant meets specific criteria, new procedures and protections apply. Tenants who follow these procedures...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Housing Assistance Payment (22 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...limits for the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) and the Rent Supplement Scheme were introduced in 2016. These limits were agreed in conjunction with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP). In reviewing the rent limits, my Department worked closely with DEASP and monitored data gathered from the Residential Tenancies Board and the HAP Shared Services Centre....

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...is my belief now in government that we need to strike a balance between restricting the level of rent tenants pay and keeping ordinary landlords in the system. As Deputy Ó Broin rightly said this evening, if we look at the RTB data, we see that we lost almost 7,700 tenancies year on year to the first quarter of 2020. This is a significant number that must be kept in check. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Diseases (15 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...been widely published with significant local and regional declines seen in some areas. There have been anecdotal reports of rabbit population declines in Ireland as well, but we do not have the data to support these and rabbits are known to be vulnerable to a number of different diseases, including myxomatosis. While the rabbit is not a protected species it is an important part of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...applicants during the COVID 19 Pandemic. As is the case with any lender, local authorities must lend mortgages on a prudent basis, taking into account the most recent income and employment data available. This is both for the protection of the lender and the borrower, in particular to seek to ensure that borrowers are not left with unsustainable debt burdens, as a mortgage is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...applicants during the COVID 19 Pandemic. As is the case with any lender, local authorities must lend mortgages on a prudent basis, taking into account the most recent income and employment data available. This is both for the protection of the lender and the borrower, in particular to seek to ensure that borrowers are not left with unsustainable debt burdens, as a mortgage is a long-term...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...limits for the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) and the Rent Supplement Scheme were introduced in 2016. These limits were agreed in conjunction with the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP). In reviewing the rent limits, my Department worked closely with DEASP and monitored data gathered from the Residential Tenancies Board and the HAP Shared Services Centre....

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...currently pertain in this country are based on public health grounds. They are, and always have been, emergency measures. Like any Minister, I was always concerned about and responsible for matters in that regard. Any protections that we afford to tenants and people in the private rented sector should be robust, durable and should endure. Apart from a few on the extreme side of this...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rental Sector (23 Jul 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...will be based on fact and on the research we have done. I will be open to looking at all options once I have that information to hand. I would say to Members that we need to look at further protection of tenants' rights on a permanent basis as well. That is why in the next couple of days I intend to bring to Cabinet a new residential tenancies (amendment) Bill which I will have in the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (23 Jul 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...applicants during the COVID 19 Pandemic. As is the case with any lender, local authorities must lend mortgages on prudent basis, taking into account the most recent income and employment data available. This is both for the protection of the lender and the borrower, in particular to seek to ensure that borrowers are not left with unsustainable debt burdens, as a mortgage is a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (21 Jul 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in Ireland by local authorities in accordance with the provisions of the Fire Services Acts, 1981 and 2003. At the moment there are 31 fire authorities which provide fire prevention and fire protection services for communities through 27 service delivery structures. Local authority fire services are delivered by approximately 3,300 local authority staff engaged at 218 fire stations...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Circulars (7 Jul 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...applicants during the COVID 19 Pandemic. As is the case with any lender, local authorities must lend mortgages on prudent basis, taking into account the most recent income and employment data available. This is both for the protection of the lender and the borrower, in particular to seek to ensure that borrowers are not left with unsustainable debt burdens. The Covid-19 situation has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: I do not accept that aspect of it and that is fair enough. On Report Stage, I will return to the issue of a rent transparency register. We have discussed the issue of deposit protection, which is different. We will get on to that because it is important. The Minister was broadly supportive of it. The issue was getting down to specific houses. If it was 14 Main Street in Rush, people...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Darragh O'Brien: ...;ochána, within which a two-tier system in terms of pay now operates. This issue needs to be addressed. The Government, rather continuing to reduce taxes for the highest paid workers in this country, needs to ensure protection of our front-line services, particularly in this instance An Garda Síochána. The starting salary for a member of the London Metropolitan Police...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2015)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the Minister was otherwise detained when Second Stage of the Bill was taken. The Minister of State was not available either and the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs and data protection, Deputy Dara Murphy, came to the House to discuss this very important Bill. I assume the Minister's officials have given him details of the comments made and some of the points I...

Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Darragh O'Brien: The Minister of State, Deputy Dara Murphy is very welcome to the House. I am puzzled as to why he is not in the Department of Finance himself. He is responsible for European affairs and data protection. I would have believed that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, or his Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris, who are responsible for this legislation, would have been here....