Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation: Data Protection Commission

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the witnesses for being here. Like Senator Conway said, perhaps the commission would provide a specific email or phone line that would allow public representatives to submit something that restricted our ability to do our representative function.

If that were communicated to us, it would be a helpful way for the commission to go directly to whomever the body is or the person who is going beyond what the GDPR provides. I have some questions on the commission's relationship with the various technology companies. What engagement has the commission had with them? What is the level of co-operation it has had? Does the commission give them notice if it is conducting an audit or does it conduct randomised audits of their data processing? What is the relationship with them on a day-to-day basis?