Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 May 2018

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Data Protection Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed)

2:00 pm

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will reply briefly. Obviously, my concern is that under section 84(1), a data subject is only entitled to be given information in respect of a breach where that breach is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of a data subject. Somebody who has breached a person's data rights will be able to justify not giving him or her the information on the basis that there was no high risk to the rights and freedoms of the data subject. I will re-examine the issue for Report Stage. The way to deal with it may be to table an amendment to section 84(1) rather than inserting a new subsection.

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