Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

One last observation is that from an objective reading it seems requirements like the mandatory information session are cumbersome and pose a practical obstacle to the accessing of information. Having listened to the earlier witnesses, it seems hard to justify such requirements or to see how they could be justified under GDPR, which of course takes priority over the Constitution. That is where I am coming from on this issue. An approach is still evident in the heads of this Bill that is unduly deferential to an assertive privacy right rather than taking the starting point as the right to have information, whereas GDPR requires the starting point to be the right to information.