Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 November 2021

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

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

Mr. Fred Logue:

In our system, generally speaking, an individual would have to take the case to prove the legal point. The principle is that the Legislature will not knowingly pass legislation that is in breach of EU law. This is the primary responsibility. The committee should be quite strong on that and that we should do this properly and not force people to take complaints to the Data Protection Commission or litigate this. Let us just get this right. We have been at this for a very long time. Everyone knows what the issues are so let us just do it properly.

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