Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be direct in my questioning. This dialogue is important. I will ask a question following on from that asked by Senator Ruane. Ms Dixon might outline the particular skill shortages and levels of staff shortages. Are there particular commercial or regulatory lawyers or specialists in particular areas of technology on the skills side that are missing?

I also have a more general question about the decision-making process within the DPC for Ms Dixon and Dr. Ryan to consider. I read the annual reports of the DPC and one of the issues I observed in 2019, for instance, was that the top four organisations against which complaints relating to data breaches and privacy had been made were the pillar banks. I wrote to Ms Dixon's office at the time and suggested that her office should consider an inquiry, of its own volition, into the area of banking, breaches of data privacy and the whole area of data protection in the banking space. This also relates to Dr. Ryan's point on real-time bidding and the complaint he made which, in my view, is a particular important issue, looking from the outside. I would like to hear from Ms Dixon and Dr. Ryan about what they think the decision-making process should be with regard to the prioritisation of particular complaints. Why should the real-time bidding complaints take priority over others? I suggest an own-volition inquiry into banking. How are those decisions made?