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 Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment. No. 125:

In page 68, line 32, after “concerned” to insert “, including the legal basis for any transfers of data”.

With these amendments, we are adding two points of information to the list in section 88(2) that data subjects have a right to get from data controllers. Most of the items of information in subsection (2), such as information on controller's contact details and the right to lodge a complaint, are replicated in the GDPR and the directive but two of them, namely, the legal basis for any transfers and such further information as is necessary to enable the data subject to exercise his or her rights, which are in the GDPR, have not been included in this Bill. I understand that they are not specified in the directive but, unlike the GDPR, we can go beyond it to strengthen people's rights in this area. That is what we are trying to do.

Amendment No. 126 proposes that the obligation regarding legal transfers will only apply in individual cases where further information is necessary to enable the data subject to exercise his or her rights.

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