Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Monday, 1 March 2021

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union

Impact of Brexit on Data Protection and Data Flows between the UK and the EU: Discussion

Mr. John O'Dwyer:

We are not aware of any at the moment. As Ms Coogan said, the discussion at EU level is just starting. They had their initial meeting last week and as that moves on over the next two to three weeks, we will see if there are issues for the EDPB. Reading some of the public commentary on it, people are raising issues around a restriction on or limiting of data protection right for immigrants so we will look at that. Generally the commentary is quite good. I do not want to say it a third time but we came from a very good starting point with the legislation that was in existence in the UK.

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