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. Dale Sunderland:

We would be more than happy to meet the Chairman. I will try to provide some reassurance, if I can. While we are obliged to implement the law as it is - it will now be direct effect regulation - it is a risk-based law. Therefore, we approach our work in terms of determining where are the biggest issues in terms of systemic risk and the largest volumes of data processing and data sharing. We will continue to allocate our resources accordingly. We are interested in dealing with the areas which involve the greatest risk. There are, nevertheless, obligations on everyone who collects data to be compliant with the law. However, the obligations should be much more straightforward and less onerous in low-risk data processing. Our office is trying to get the balance right in that respect. We emphasise and focus our resources and efforts on the areas which involve the greatest risk. I am not sure if that provides the Chairman with any reassurance, but it is something of which are conscious. We are trying to improve how we do our work and carry out our regulatory functions.

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