Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Taking sections 39 and 40, if we are to define scientific research purposes, we should also define historical research purposes, statistical purposes, academic, artistic or literary expression. One cannot have just one definition of one type of exemption. A court which looks at it will know what scientific or historical research is. If it is the data commissioner, they should be aware of it in order to exclude any fake research purposes which are not really scientific. On balance, I do not favour having a definition of scientific research only if we are going to leave out specific definitions of the other.