Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that very much. I welcome the fact that this is an issue that the Data Protection Commission has been addressing. It is important. Here we are on the cusp perhaps and it is quite alarming to find where there are so many gaps that people are only just saying, "Oh my goodness, what should we be doing." This will impact right across the board. People do not have a sense of the scale and scope of this. It will be significant.

I have bunched together the last little couple. In that last reply, Mr. Ryan talked about regular engagement with the different companies, for example, the multinational technology sector. What does the Data Protection Commission's engagement with them entail? I will explain what I have on my mind. In terms of the HSE, I have HIQA in mind. Is the Data Protection Commission a HIQA? Does the Data Protection Commission carry out unannounced visits in terms of its audit, inspection or inquiry? Give me a sense of the nature of this relationship with the Facebooks of this world? Does the Data Protection Commission carry out unannounced visits or is that simply not the way it works?