Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 77:

In page 11, line 32, to delete “information” and substitute “records”.

I will speak to amendments Nos. 77, 167, 173 to 179, inclusive, and the last group of amendments Nos. 196, 219, 252 and 257. Amendment No. 77 removes the ambiguity around language. A person's medical information is the person's personal data and the person has a fundamental right under EU law to access that data, and not merely information contained in a record for which a person may apply. GDPR law makes it clear that medical data should be released, not information contained in the data.

Amendment No. 167 seeks to amend the unacceptable constraint on affected people's access to personal data. Items of this nature which were left with an adoption agency or an institution are highly unlikely to have been provided for anyone else's benefit.

Amendments Nos. 173 to 179, inclusive, are very similar to amendment No. 77. They again remove ambiguity around language.

The last group, amendments Nos. 196, 219, 252 and 257, seeks to remove the restrictions on what medical data is shared. Basically, we have proposed these amendments with regard to vital medical information being shared. They are all very similar.