Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The answers to the Deputy's question is that, as stated in the Title, this is a Bill entitled An Act to amendment the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011; and to provide for related matters. Section 1 states: "In this Act [the] "Principal Act" means the Communications Regulation (Postal Services) Act 2011." That is what we are amending here but all of the existing data protection remains in place. The Act of 1988 is referred to here as meaning the Data Protection Act 1988 and so on. It cannot be said that because we are introducing new legislation it in any way removes or lessens the impact of the existing legislation; the existing legislation continues to have full force. If one were to state that in legislation, it would give rise to all kinds of problems in regard to all kinds of legislation where one would have to include wording in a new Bill that these other Acts still apply. The presumption is that other Acts still apply because they are the law of the land.