Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
9:00 am
Ms Helen Dixon:
It is a very interesting question. I will mention administrative fines before I turn to the Deputy's question, which is about the opposite costs. Once the Irish Data Protection Commission, DPC, starts administering fines and sanctions, there has been a debate about whether all of that goes to the Irish Exchequer or whether it is shared across the EU member states. It is our understanding that it goes to the Irish Exchequer. Already, therefore, there is an opposite debate to the question the Deputy is raising as to whether it is fair, if Ireland supervises most of these big technology companies-----
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