Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will do my best to provide as clear an answer as possible. On a point of clarity, the interdepartmental group, IDG, is not related to the right to rectification. That is dealing with restorative recognition, the financial payments.

As regards the immediate avenues for the individual who contacted the Deputy, the commission's archive will move over to my Department fully by 28 February, as we know, the general data protection regulation, GDPR, applies to that. Any individual who believes that they have personal information within the archive is entitled to rely on all of the rights of GDPR, including the right to rectification. That person can then contact the information management unit that my Department has set up specifically to deal with the subject access requests, ask for the information and if they feel there are inaccuracies then look at the use of rectification, or other rights within GDPR to rectify the specific issues as regards their particular personal account.