Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Sinéad Gibney:
If I may. That has given me a chance to remember a few more points that may be of interest to the committee. First, in July of this year new obligations will come into force for public bodies with the transposition of the open data and reuse of public sector information directive. This will introduce the concept of high-value data sets associated with important benefits for society and economy. The committee may be interested in that. Second, the UN Human Rights Council has noted that governments and international actors should start as soon as possible to gather adequate data on the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. We have just touched on Covid-19, but that is another really important data set for us to look at in the context not only of the pandemic but also of the Government response to it and how that has been impacted.
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