Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is validity to Deputy O'Callaghan's point in the sense that what we agreed yesterday on Oireachtas oversight has maybe moved the goalposts since we tabled these amendments. We tabled two amendments to get around the legal prohibition on us placing an obligation on the Data Protection Commissioner to do anything. We have probably favoured Deputy Ó Laoghaire's amendment to ours but we were worried how that might stack up in that legal context and we put them in as reserves. I am happy enough to withdraw these for now with the option, when we look at the final draft, to see how it might fit in. Amendment No. 76 is consequential on amendment No. 5, and, on the point that Deputy O'Callaghan made about democratic oversight, we need to get that one passed. We are okay with withdrawing the others.