Mr. Barry Lowry:

To reiterate, this legislation is essential to address the Chairman's concerns, it should not increase them. If we look at the GDPR itself, one of the reasons it became such a priority at European level were the concerns, not only of State bodies but organisations such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and statements regarding what they were doing with people's data. The state should not be given any more privilege than those companies to do things that are inappropriate. This legislation very much aligns with the GDPR. The Chairman is correct that bodies hold too much data and one of the key parts of this legislation is to ensure that bodies do not hold data that they do not need to hold. It is to ensure that the data they do hold is accurate and that there is means for the data owner, the citizen, to check that is accurate and that there is means for it to be challenged if the subject feels it is being used for inappropriate purposes.