Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is incredible that we are discussing a complicated document and are further unnecessarily complicating it. The entities to which the Minister referred such as the Referendum Commission, political parties, political wannabes and others can rely on existing legitimate interest grounds to carry out direct mailing and so on. These sections relate to removing a recipient's right to object. The sections remove the existing right under the articles of the GDPR for a person who does not wish to receive spam via phone, text messages and so on to object to that. The arguments being used to justify the section are neither valid nor accurate. We stand over our opposition to the section.