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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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In the preparation of the report, I imagine that Ms Dixon had to rely on legal opinion. One of the core issues was a difference of opinion on the legal underpinnings of the card and its workings. Did Ms Dixon rely on in-house legal advice or was she obliged to purchase an external legal opinion? If the latter, what was the cost?