Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dualta Ó Broin:

Coming back to the overall point, we agree that any political activity or activity that is seeking to promote views or pay for content relating to a broad range of social issues should be seen. That is why we have built the ads library that applies year-round. In respect of the detail about an individual, it raises privacy concerns. I know that the deputy commissioner appeared before the committee last week and he said it would be possible to build a system that was safeguarded and put processes in place to mitigate the risk. That work on the data impact assessments required may be ongoing in the Department. Based on what we can see in the general scheme, it raises privacy concerns. We believe there is a more straightforward way of going about this which would not necessarily have the same level of privacy concerns. One, for example, would be that an individual-----

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