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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Oct 2019)

Dara Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to an implementation of a section 37(a) in one part of the country, if and when he will be extending this nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42753/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Oct 2019)

Dara Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a geographical breakdown of the ASD classes available nationally, both by county and by primary and secondary schools, will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Oct 2019)

Dara Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has carried out an analysis of demand for ASD classes nationally; if so, the figures by region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42755/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Dara Murphy: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be provided for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to Cork County Council; when this will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15197/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Apr 2019)

Dara Murphy: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ranking of a person on the list will be affected when Cork City Council takes over the waiting list for approved disabled persons grant applications on local authority properties; the measures in place to ensure that persons will not be disadvantaged by virtue of the boundary change between city and county; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (15 May 2018)

Dara Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been an audit or an assessment of the supply and demand for nursing home beds carried out in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21007/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Speeds (20 Feb 2018)

Dara Murphy: 463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is poor broadband connectivity in an area (details supplied); when this issue will be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8132/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (23 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: The General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill is available on the website of the Department of Justice and Equality: www.justice.ie. It has also been forwarded to the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality for pre-legislative examination. The principal objective of the draft Bill is to give further effect to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. Regulation(EU) 2016/679 of 27...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (18 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: The position is the Data Protection Commissioner acts independently in the performance of her tasks and exercise of her powers under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. I understand that the matter referred to by the Deputy has come to the attention of the Commissioner and that she has issued a statement in relation to the use of facial detection technology for advertising purposes. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (2 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: The position is the Data Protection Commissioner acts independently in the performance of her tasks and exercise of her powers under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. As the Deputy may be aware, the new General Data Protection Regulation will enter into force in May 2018 and the Commissioner will continue to act in a completely independent manner under the new legislative regime which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Regulations (11 Apr 2017)

Dara Murphy: The position is that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has direct legal effect and does not require to be transposed into national law. It does however contain a number of Articles which provide Member States with a limited margin of flexibility, mainly in respect of the public sector. Work is ongoing in the Department of Justice and Equality on the development of a General...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (30 Mar 2017)

Dara Murphy: The position is that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has direct legal effect and does not therefore require to be transposed into national law. The Regulation does however contains a number of Articles which provide Member States with a limited margin of flexibility, mainly in respect of the public sector. Work is ongoing in my Department on the preparation of a General Scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (30 Mar 2017)

Dara Murphy: According to the "purpose limitation" principle set out in Article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), personal data should be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes. However, paragraph 1(b) provides that further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (5 Jul 2016)

Dara Murphy: The position is that the primary purpose of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, which transpose the Council of Europe's Data Protection Convention (1981) and the EU's Data Protection Directive (1995) into our national law, is to ensure protection of the personal data of individuals. The Acts apply to all processing of personal data, including collection, use, sharing, disclosure and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed Circuit Television Systems (28 Jun 2016)

Dara Murphy: The general position is that the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 apply to personal images recorded by means of video cameras unless the recording activity relates to an individual's own personal, family or recreational activities. The recording of images in public places is, therefore, generally covered by data protection legislation. Useful material on this issue is available on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (13 Oct 2015)

Dara Murphy: The Deputy will appreciate that I am not in a position as Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality to interpret the law, or to provide advice on a particular case in response to a Parliamentary Question. The general position is that the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 apply to the processing of personal data, including the recording of such data by CCTV systems. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (7 Oct 2015)

Dara Murphy: The position is that a General Approach on the proposed Data Protection Regulation was agreed by Justice Ministers of the Member States at last June's JHA Counsel meeting. It contains specific provisions, which we fully support, which are intended to permit the processing of personal data for archiving purposes in the public interest and also for scientific, statistical and historical...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (1 Oct 2015)

Dara Murphy: Under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, the Data Protection Commissioner is independent in the performance of her duties, including the conduct of investigations in response to complaints received by her Office. Such investigations, and any related enforcement actions, are subject to relevant statutory provisions and due process requirements.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Dara Murphy: The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) was established under Section 9 of the Data Protection Act 1988. The Data Protection Commissioner's statutory functions include the monitoring of implementation of data protection law, the investigation of complaints and, where appropriate, the taking of legal proceedings in the event of breaches of data protection rules. The ODPC is an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (22 Sep 2015)

Dara Murphy: The Deputy will appreciate that I am not in a position as Minister of State of Justice and Equality to interpret the law, or to provide advice on a particular case in response to a Parliamentary Question. Moreover, it should be noted that the Data Protection Commissioner enjoys complete independence in the performance of her functions under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. ...