Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The information to which the Data Protection Commission is specifically referring is the proof of address of people making applications, which is held on record in our Department. If someone comes to an interview for a PSC SAFE 2 authentication process with an ESB bill that states that he or she lives on No. 123, Road A, Rathfarnham, a copy of that ESB bill is kept on our records. That is the retention issue the Data Protection Commission has, insofar as it believes - incorrectly, in our opinion - that ESB bill should only be kept for a certain period of time, the length of which we should specify.