Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 58:

In page 30, to delete lines 4 to 6 and substitute the following:"41.(1) For the purposes of Article 86, personal data may be disclosed where a request for access to a record is granted under and in accordance with the Act of 2014 pursuant to an FOI request, a request for access to environmental information is granted under and in accordance with the Regulations of 2007 pursuant to a request for environmental information or a request to release documents for re-use is granted under and in accordance with the Regulations of 2005 pursuant to a request.".

The amendment is intended to put the access to information regimes on an equal footing with freedom of information regimes. These include the right to access environmental information under the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007 to 2014 and the European Communities (Re-Use of Public Sector Information) Regulations 2005 to 2015. There is no good reason to refer in the Data Protection Bill 2018 only to freedom of information without also including the other major regimes accessed under those regulations. This amendment can correct that and would be a useful addition to the Bill.