Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I am not an expert on data protection legislation but we are talking about the retention of data by a public or a quasi-public body which receives taxpayers' funding. What private individuals do in the context of their own personal arrangements is a slightly different matter, but in this instance we have a public body which has information and a private body which has information. What we want, for the purposes of streamlining, is for them to be able to share that information both ways and, as I said, this provision is in square brackets in the Bill because it is a confession of ignorance, so to speak, and something that would be guided by the lawyers. That is all I can say.