Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I have not found that to be the case for the work of my office because we have powers to access documents and so on. I am aware of organisations that are struggling with the obligations imposed on them by GDPR and finding the correct approach to take. It has certainly made administration of personal data much more complicated and there is a higher risk for organisations. I cannot comment on specifics because I have not looked at the nature of the data they are looking for and, obviously, it would be for the Data Protection Commissioner to issue a judgment on a matter such as that.

To complicate matters further, I have said previously that I am doing a special report on the costs of nursing home care. I am expecting to put a draft to the relevant organisations shortly and I aim to finish it over the summer. There may be a plethora of reports in this area.

It is complicated and I am trying to create a framework into which all of these individual pieces will fit so that there is a structure that will help to approach the issues that are raised. It is quite complex.