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:
Yes, that is what is envisaged. That is obviously a requirement under GDPR as well. In delivering those services, we are basically aligning ourselves with the requirements of the legislation. There is also the issue that goes back to the first example I gave of actually being a good government and providing good government services. To provide a good government services, if someone tells one State agency that he or she has changed address and forgets to tell another agency, we should know that information and should be able to automatically update that address in all of our records. That is where the legislation will help to start to encourage data-sharing where appropriate. There are obvious areas in which we can share to the benefit of the public data that is not contentious and would not cause concerns by being shared. The Senator gave a few examples earlier in which there would be a strong argument for the sharing of data. Those are specific areas that would need to be looked at and legislation enacted for to allow that data-sharing to take place.
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