Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

While it may seem slightly beyond the scope of the legislation and the issue we are talking about here, if the issue we are talking about is ultimately the fundamental rights of people to their data, as Mr. McGarr said, they need an effective remedy so the effectiveness of the Data Protection Commissioner ties in directly with the effectiveness of the support for these individual rights holders. As was said earlier, we as legislators have a responsibility to ensure the legislation recognises those rights. We need to acknowledge - it would be good to reflect this in our report - the difficulties with the body that is also tasked with protecting these rights. It is not just about the legislation; it is also about all the other stuff. Yes, we need to get this right, and it would seem from what has been said so far that we are not quite at that point yet, but we also need to get the other protections for people's rights right. It is important that we reflect that.