Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

General Scheme of Data-Sharing and Governance Bill: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 pm

Mr. Denis Kelleher:

What is clever about the legislation is the manner in which it effectively enables subjects to bring their own enforcement actions and engage in their own supervision. It is a clever and quite unique piece of legislation in that there these rights of access, right to objection, the so-called right to be forgotten, and in addition there is the right to complain and initiate one's own legal action and potentially seek damages. As a piece of legislation, it is very clever in how it addresses this issue.