Ms Roisin O'Neill:

The original draft was published by the European Commission on 3 May 2022. It is currently being reviewed in Council by the working party on public health and by all 27 member states, and at the same time by the European Parliament. We fully expect a report to be issued by the Parliament possibly by September of this year. We could also see a general approach coming out of the Council potentially by the end of the year, all going well. It is a very large and unwieldy file, and could take a little longer. Beyond that we would see it go into trilogues, which could take another lengthy period of time to create a final document that we could review. That being said, at every stage in the process we are ensuring that there are no massive pitfalls for Irish citizens moving their data as we go along, step by step.