Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What is being examined, and there is some controversy surrounding it, is the type of consent individuals should give for personal information to be used; the circumstances in which information put on the web can get lost - in other words, that it can be removed and not maintained; and the regulatory factors of registering with a data protection commissioner. At present if one is involved in business in this area throughout Europe one may have to register with 27 different data protection commissioners, so perhaps we might have a base commissioner with which one registers and this would apply throughout Europe. It does not specifically deal with the issue of cyberbullying, which is a separate issue, although there is some indirect relevance to this in the context of trying to have material personally related to an individual removed, but some of the issues the Deputy spoke about would really arise under another heading.