Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. To be honest, I do not know why the amendments have been grouped like this, as they deal with two sections. That probably has caused part of the confusion, about which I am sorry.

Section 43 deals with providing for a general exemption from the prohibition on processing special categories of data imposed on either the controller or the subject by employment or social welfare law. All we are trying to do is change the words "any right or obligation" to "specific rights or obligations", which would be much more in line with Article 9. We have a little concern that it is being left too general and that it would allow special categories to be processed for reasons for which they do not need to be processed. It is a slight change.