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:
In fact that has been addressed. Now, under section 149 of the 2018 Act, we have a very broad power of publication, which includes publication in relation to any matters that we think are in the public interest. Had we conducted this investigation under the 2018 Act we would have been capable of publishing it when we concluded the findings regardless of whether the Department wished to publish it or not. The issue here is that we commenced this investigation in October 2017, pre-dating the 2018 Act and the 2018 Act does not stretch to cover, retrospectively, the publication of a report that was commenced.
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