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:
Under data protection legislation, entities are looked at as controllers or processors of data. The legislation specifically looks at the remit not necessarily of a legal entity but of the role of the people who decide the purposes and means of the data processing operation. It is unlikely to be directly relevant to a data protection analysis that we would conduct. The obligations on the controllers remain the same regardless of whether their funding is obtained through a Government grant or allocated from within their own resources.
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