Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

EU Migration and Asylum Pact: Discussion

Mr. Michael Shotter:

It is an issue in the regulation, not an IT issue. We have an IT agency called eu-LISA, which we work with closely on all databases. It is not an IT issue, it is a regulatory design issue. We need to correct that. We will have to engage with the eu-LISA agency to have it sorted. That will take time to roll-out. We need to get the regulation right in the first instance. In regard to these databases, we always have to pay particular attention to data protection requirements and we do and have done so. I do not think that is the issue here. We have taken care to design it in a data protection by design way. The issue is that the regulation did not provide for this. We need to get that right. It is issues like that we need to fix.

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