Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

As late as last week I had a case involving the Revenue Commissioners where information relating to one individual was attached to another individual's file and the latter was sent a bill in error. Such things are happening all of the time and that is why this legislation is so urgent.

Let us take the example of a local authority where hundreds of emails from public representatives are being read by the chief executive or some other senior manager. What sanctions are in place to deal with that type of behaviour? If an audit is done and that information is uncovered, what happens?