Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Mary Seery KearneyMary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to flesh this out. I would be of the view that it needs to be a bit wider and that it is too restrictive as it stands. Head 40 suspends GDPR rights for the purposes of birth information. As I read this, however, GDPR rights are not just rights of access, they are also rights of restriction and it is necessary that the right to restrict the disclosure of data is suspended in order that individuals can receive their birth information. In the discussion on this we see that rather one dimensionally. I am a bit anxious it would come out of these two meetings that this is not the perception. I would see the intention of that section to be that GDPR would suggest that a third party's name, or another party's name, would be redacted as it currently stands, and that we need to suspend those rights in order to ensure that an individual has rights to all of their information. Can the witnesses add to that, consider that or add a bit of context for it?

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