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:

Fundamentally, it will be for the Deputy and his colleagues, as legislators, to decide where the balance is and to ensure that the right privacy protections are in place. We are saying there is a more straightforward way of doing it. We will provide the name of the person and all the details regarding the ad, but it may be more appropriate to provide an individual's home address directly to the regulator. We have seen examples in recent referendums where there have been highly emotionally charged debates where it might not always be in the public interest to have an individual's home address available online. It is just a question of balance and we are just saying that the home address issue raises privacy concerns. It obviously it will be a matter for the legislators to decide where the balance is in that instance.

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