Vincent P Martin (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I concur with Senator Higgins. The bombs and guns are silent in Gaza and the children are no longer being slaughtered. What more could we hope for?An awful lot more. At the heart of that awful lot more must be accountability. People must be held to account this time because if they are not, as sure as night follows day, it will happen again and again. This will take the international community. I welcome President Biden’s recent remarks, however belated, but America was silent at a time when we expected more from them less than a week ago.

Many people are waking up today terrified and petrified that their highly sensitive medical information might be publicly disclosed and published, or that they might get a phone call from someone representing the Dark Web trying to engage them in the black market. Stress levels are heightened by the fact that some people may not want their employer to be aware of the sensitive nature of their information. No one should be disadvantaged from illegally obtained information. There should be a mechanism put in place to protect citizens. This would deter those in the black market and the vulnerable people from deliberately succumbing to the black market for fear that their employer may hear something about them that was utterly sensitive, private and confidential heretofore. I will bring this matter up with the justice committee but one way of stamping out the black market is if we can put protections in place for affected citizens. If it is proven that an employer found out information solely and exclusively through illegal means, they ought not be able to use it to move against a vulnerable employee.