Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:15 pm

Mr. Paul Lambert:

That is also personal data. One would need to consider what activity and for what purpose does one want that fingerprint. It would not be for all the potential purposes and activities an electoral commission would be undertaking. For example, what if part of the electoral commission’s role will be to allocate voting registration numbers to individuals? Once those numbers are allocated, is there a need at all for PPS numbers?