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

Again, in the context of an investigation that might take place, in order for the commission to be able to respond to that investigation it would need access to the entirety of its files to be able to provide the sort of detailed responses needed. If that were the case and it still had access to its files, we would not have provided the archive and the commission would still be holding on to all the personal information. As we know, the commission has not undertaken subject access requests, SARs, up to this point. We are first looking to ensure survivors can get access to their personal information, which I am committed to doing in the context of the information management unit set up by my Department. In the context of the audio material being destroyed, we are also looking to provide a right to rectification and, again, my Department has put some time into ascertaining how that could happen. We can get a better outcome for survivors in the context of access to information and potential use of rectification in a GDPR compliant way.