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:

To reiterate what I and the previous Data Protection Commissioner have said, the individual issues and problems do not require the same solution. They require individualised attention and solutions. Some of the problems may be larger or smaller for different reasons, so from a data protection perspective, we should not necessarily go for the sledgehammer to solve all those problems if we do not have to and if there is a more proportionate and less intrusive solution. I am not saying I have the answer to each of those individual problems and questions; I am saying that we have not got to the stage at which, from a data protection perspective, we have got into the detail of analysing them individually. We need to do that at some stage.