Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Chairman, on a point of information, if the information is available from the Department's site to meat factories, then the Department is in breach of the data protection rules, not the meat factories. It is not unknown for the Data Protection Commissioner to make rulings that Government Departments are in breach of the Data Protection Act. The Department must focus on that issue immediately. I got into trouble for saying that I would repair the road to Mickey Joe's house because I mentioned Mickey Joe in my press release, even though nobody knew where 365 yards up the L6532 was. The rules are very strict and Departments must stick to them. In case there is any misunderstanding here, what I am proposing is that the Data Protection Commissioner is brought in to determine whether the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is in breach of data protection legislation by giving information that is not necessary to the factories.