Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

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

General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 pm

Mr. Denis Kelleher:

The GDPR is the European legislation. That is a general data protection regulation so it will apply to virtually all forms of data processing in the State outside the criminal justice area. It is the overarching framework with which this legislation must comply. There is the historic question of whether it was adequate in 2014 and so forth. The main point about the legislation is that it must be updated to take account of the new legal environment it will encounter after next year. That is the key point.

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