Mr. Brian Sheehan:

I thank the Senator On the data we store, we do not store electoral registers, apart from, as Deputy Ó Broin said, in electronic or soft copy as sent from the city or county councils. We store our members’ data on a system that is not in the EEA at the moment. The Senator will know, following the Schrems case, that the privacy shield which governed that was declared against EU law. However, the standard contractual clauses were held to be valid by the EU court. We are working with our suppliers until we get a decision from the European Data Protection Board, and there is currently a consultation and new guidance is coming from it. As soon as that new guidance comes, we will certainly implement that. In any event, towards the end of this year, we are probably moving to a new system which will probably be stored internally on an Irish server.