Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Before I call Deputy O'Connell, I would like to ask a brief follow-up question on the matter of the GDPR. Mr. O'Connor stated that all the stakeholders are engaging with their counterparts in Britain on the sharing of information. Is it his expectation that such people will have local level agreements between themselves in respect of how the data are managed? For example, if the headquarters of a 32-county organisation are in Dublin, it may hold information on people North and South. Will the Department rely on such an organisation to make a local agreement? Such an organisation would be based in both the Thirty-two Counties and the Six Counties. Is the Department giving such organisations direction with regard to how the data will be managed? On 1 November, potentially, some of the information such organisations hold will be governed by the GDPR while some will be governed by whatever the new rule will be. Will such organisations be expected to devise rules and has the Department given them guidance or instructions?