Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion
10:10 am
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Ms Dixon for her presentation and I agree with her when she states it would be beneficial to have a consolidated piece of legislation setting out the laws in respect of data protection, as opposed to having three different pieces of legislation that we would have to check for consistency. The witness mentioned it might be worthwhile if a process could be done whereby somebody could go back through the legislation to identify the parts of the 1988 and 2003 Acts that need to be retained. Does Ms Dixon see her office having a role in identifying what needs to be retained?
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