Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Barry Lowry:

As far as I am aware, we do not specifically share data repeatedly with America. The concerns about America were that some organisations have been using commercial data centres and those data centres have backed up to America and so on. Any of those companies are fully bound by European law. Therefore, the expectations of the stewardship of that data are exactly the same regardless of whether it is actually held in a state anywhere in the European Union or outside the boundaries of the European Union.

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