Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Turning to the report, it was a significant aspect of the commission's work this year. People will have concerns about some of the findings, which have been very much in the public domain. There were a number of high-level findings, such as that there was no lawful basis for the Department to rely on the SAFE 2 register, that the Department has not complied with the data retention principle and that it has not delivered sufficient transparency to the public. What did Ms Dixon instruct the Department to do as a consequence of her findings?