Results 41-60 of 68 for data protection speaker:Pearse Doherty

Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's Pre-Budget 2015 Statement: Statements (21 Oct 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...spend nearly €1 billion and reach a target of 2.7% of GDP? Why was it recommending an additional adjustment in previous years when the Government opted for a smaller reduction and was able to reach its targets? When I asked the Minister about the detail on this at the committee meeting in June of this year, he mentioned that he had additional soft data that explained why the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Telephone Call Recordings (15 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...in the Revenue Commissioners; if so, which calls are recorded; the way the recording is accessed; the person that controls or authorises such recordings; the steps taken to ensure compliance with data protection legislation; the reason the public are not informed of the recordings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17637/14]

Order of Business (9 Apr 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...the Revenue Commissioners, that records phone calls from members of the public without their knowledge, whether the Minister for Finance is aware of that and whether it is in compliance with data protection laws? The second issue concerns the crisis in primary care in the GP sector. I have attended meetings with general practitioners who gave a summary of the 38% cuts, which started...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Pearse Doherty: 225. To ask the Minister for Health if calls to the medical review section are recorded; the reason callers are not notified of this; his views on whether this practice is in line with the data protection rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3293/14]

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...the fact that the information will be provided free of charge, arising from discussions on Committee Stage, and I very much welcome that. I also accept the Minister of State's argument regarding data protection, although I believe there are ways around it. It is not as if we are going to be plucking addresses from the sky, unlike the situation with the local property tax. These are...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (26 Nov 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...review on the research and development tax credit for key employees, but when we introduce such measures in a finance Bill we need to include some type of informal 12-month review. As soon as the data becomes available when taxpayers start making their returns, we need to be able to sit down with that preliminary data and ask at what would be the first glimpse of the effect of this...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: Will anybody with information held on the register be able to apply to the Data Protection Commissioner in the case of a dispute?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. Will the ruling of the Data Protection Commissioner be adhered to by the Central Bank?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: I am just absorbing what the Minister of State as saying. The Data Protection Commissioner will capture the vast majority of cases-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: If if there is a dispute between an individual such as a hairdresser and the bank, that individual, depending on the size of his or her business, may be able to go to the Data Protection Commissioner. However, a large supermarket, owing to its size, would not have the independent adjudication process available to it. If we have established that the Bill should be able to allow for an...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Committee Stage (23 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: The Data Protection Commissioner and the relevant Acts deal with a different set of scenarios. They deal with data, of which financial data are obviously a part. These data were dealt with in the legislation at a time when this register was not being conceived. I agree with the Minister of State that the Data Protection Commissioner is the best independent person to adjudicate on these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Collection (11 Jun 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...person or agency which is responsible for collection of the fees; his views on whether the agencies collecting the fees are sharing personal information on citizens and whether this is a breach of data protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26915/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm in each of 2010, 2011,2012 and to date in 2013, the number of possible breaches of data protection laws that have been reported by the National Asset Management Agency to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. [24101/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Unauthorised Disclosures (21 May 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 8 May 2013, if he will confirm that the National Asset Management Agency has contacted the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner about the release of loan information, the date on which NAMA contacted the ODPC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24102/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (30 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: 307. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 16 April, 2013, if she will make available the file of data received from the Private Residential Tenancies Board, data which she says does not give rise to data protection implications, but which presumably provides addresses, details of accommodation and rent costs. [20029/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Private Residential Tenancies Board Remit (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 136 and 144 on 21 March 2013, in which she stated she had obtained data from the Private Residential Tenancies Board including a snapshot of the PRTB’s database which stores all annual rental values and relevant addresses, if she will confirm the way accessing such information was permitted in the context...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Sector Remuneration (16 Apr 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...provide a list of the top ten remuneration packages paid at RTÉ in 2011 and 2012, including the packages paid to presenters and management; and if such information cannot be provided because of data protection reasons, if he will provide an overall total of the top ten remuneration packages split between total salary, total employer contributions to pensions, total other pay and perks...

Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Second Stage (28 Mar 2013)

Pearse Doherty: .... There has been a significant delay in bringing forward the legislation and the troika has insisted on its implementation. When will the provisions become operational and people be able to access their information? What is the position on existing information that the banks hold through the Irish Credit Bureau? Will the data be transferred automatically or will there be two concurrent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Protection (27 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the Data Protection Commissioner investigation of the alleged unauthorised removal of confidential data by a former employee of the National Assets Management Agency. [10649/13]

Finance Bill 2013: Second Stage (19 Feb 2013)

Pearse Doherty: ...%, given that, I believe, Britain and the United States have set it at 90%. There also are questions regarding the mixed assets and that the legislation seems to lack any meaningful asset test to protect potential investors. These are some issues which we will be able to address in more detail on Committee Stage. In addition, the changes to research and development tax credits for...