Results 21-40 of 50 for data protection speaker:Peadar Tóibín

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (3 Oct 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of data breaches experienced by her Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [42373/23]

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...in homelessness on the streets of Dublin in the last five years. That is an incredible figure. The shocking thing is that the national figure is far higher but the Government refused to collect the data in any other county outside of Dublin. The figures I give today do not even count those who are rough sleeping in this country. Those statistics are far higher. Some 11,754 people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Freedom of Information (19 Jan 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: I understand that it is possible to submit FOI and general data protection regulation, GDPR, requests verbally under the legislation. Can the Minister explain that process to me? Can the Minister explain to me where the line is drawn between professional and private records from a ministerial perspective under the FOI legislation? For example, could I ask the Minister for copies of emails,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Child and Family Agency (15 Dec 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...of Justice regarding the flaws within the Garda vetting system. I understand, however, it is not investigating the disclosures made by Aontú because of that Department's interpretation of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act. In recent months, I was contacted by an individual who alleged that she and her siblings were severely abused while in foster care in this country in...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...law and punished for their crimes. On the back of meetings with survivors and the Spiritans, a pilot restorative justice programme was set up and I welcome this. Uncertainties around general data protection regulation, GDPR, have been raised with me as it is causing difficulties for investigations. I ask the Minister to resolve this if she can. The most important issue facing us...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...interviewed, confessed to the abuse and a file was sent to the DPP, but the DPP decided not to prosecute. Again, I cannot comprehend this. In recent months, Ms H applied for her files under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and the Garda wrote back to her to say it had located a PULSE record number but the file was empty. It appears that no file was sent to the DPP. There...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: Thousands of people marched in Navan last weekend to protect the emergency department in Navan, which provides life-or-death treatment and services for the people of County Meath. There was palpable anger that, at a time of key overcrowding, the Government was going to take capacity out of the system. Amazing data that blow the HSE figures out of the water have been provided by 23 hospital...

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: It is long past time that we had an organisational overhaul of our approach to national parks and the wildlife of the State. The natural beauty of this landscape is not being protected and has not been historically. What could have been a great ecological and economic resource has lacked the care and maintenance it desperately needs. The health of our biodiversity is the key to our...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the start of many of these issues. One of the first things the Taoiseach did when he assumed office was demote the Department of Rural and Community Development and lump it in with the Department of Social Protection. He left poor old Deputy Ring without a Ministry, which was a big crisis for the then Government. Also, there was no senior Minister for the west of Ireland at the time....

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...low. Nobody under the age of 14 has died from Covid-19 in the last two years in this State. For 19 months, in fairness to the Government as well, it also made the point that young people were protected from the worst aspects of this virus. However, for some strange reason, the Government has significantly flipped its message in the last four weeks. The truth of the matter is that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (1 Jun 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 453. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the nature of the data breaches experienced by her Department since 2018. [29315/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...lies for this attack. It lies with the criminals who were involved but the Government has a duty of care and responsibility to the patients of this country for the delivery of healthcare and protection of their data. Its duty of care is far more to this country, given that this is an island of data. Right now we have hospitals where operations are being cancelled, people are running...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: ...ongoing restrictions but shockingly, on top of this, key life and death treatment is again put on hold due to this odious crime. The Government has a duty of care with regard to safeguarding and protecting the health of citizens and their personal data. This responsibility is particularly important in Ireland as we are a data island. Some 30% of the data that exist in the EU are located...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (18 May 2021)

Peadar Tóibín: 547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of data breaches suffered by her Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26106/21]

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (Resumed) (20 Oct 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...the two. Will the Minister of State explain why Ireland is currently an outlier in terms of Covid-19 restrictions? Accordingly to the government response stringency index produced by Our World in Data, Ireland is the second most restricted country in the EU when it comes to Covid-19. That is before level 5 is put in place. A comparative analysis between European countries has found...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Peadar Tóibín: ...needed for their desired college course. Another student with low outputs since 7 May has become the most prolific in the class in their level of output. A balance needs to be brought to bear to protect teachers from undue pressure and influence. We also need to ensure that students are not isolated from supports and communications from those teachers in their time of need. I would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (1 Oct 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 614. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the provision in the Water Services Act 2014 to cease the collection of PPSN numbers was not commenced until four years after the Act became law; the reason Irish Water is legally entitled to collected PPSN numbers from persons for four years after the Act's enactment; and the further reason it took Irish Water...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Water Services Data (8 May 2019)

Peadar Tóibín: 1407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when she signed into law section 11 of the Water Services Act 2014; the data collected prior to the signing of this legislation into law; the reason this data was collected; the length of time personal data was collected by her Department; the reason it took her four years to sign section 11 of the Act into law; if Irish...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: ...groups from these countries, there is clear evidence of a trend and that the only reliable available explanation consistent with a statistically significant gender shift observed in the census data is gender selective abortion. It is shocking to me that this could or would happen, yet it is happening in western countries. It is happening in Canada, Britain and the United States of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Heritage Council Strategy 2018-2022: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Peadar Tóibín: ...to be in a box forever more. I do not mind. The idea is that somehow or other, it is accessible to the public. We cannot put everything on display but people should know that we have it and protect it and that it is available. There are two areas in which I do not have expertise so I might be wrong about them. Bord na Móna has just announced the ending of peat-fired energy...