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

This point of an onerous obligation assumes that this will happen frequently. It should not happen frequently. If we are talking about new special categories being taken into account and that the Minister would be able to provide for that, that should not be happening willy-nilly or frequently but should be infrequent. One would hope that it would not happen any more often than once a year or even less often than that. I do not see why the Data Protection Commissioner cannot match up to that job. I do not think it is an onerous obligation. If it is, it means that the provision is being abused and that we are looking for new special categories to be sanctioned too frequently.