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

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

So making sure that everyone whose car is taxed also has car insurance and vice versais not affected by this Bill, but there is other legislation covering those kinds of schemes in the first place.

In terms of access to data, there is FOI on one side and data protection on the other. In terms of data, we are all concerned about garbage in, garbage out. At the moment, almost a million random breath tests that never happened have appeared on a system. That is something that would frighten many ordinary members of the public as to whether they can rely on the systems. Unfortunately, the systems have been letting us down in terms of giving the ordinary public that we represent confidence in knowing what is there. The witness is saying that there will now be a system by which anybody can access their own information in the broader sense more than they ever could before. With a PPS number and a password I could see what the Department of Health, the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport or the Revenue Commissioners have on me. Is that a part of the overall strategy?

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