Mr. Neil Ward:

To briefly add to what the director general said, our primary intention is that we do not want the new Data Protection Act to become a means by which our processes can be frustrated. We are not trying, in some way, to get around people's rights here, we are just trying to ensure data protection is not used to abuse the system. To be clear, we are receiving subject access requests under the GDPR at present, we are processing them and we will continue to do that as normal until the regulations are presented and hopefully approved by the Oireachtas.