Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bil 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Darragh McShea:

I thank the Senator for the question. Our data protection officer is constantly reviewing the cases that emerge with regard to potential difficulties as to where the data we hold could be stored. The vast majority of any information we hold is held here in Ireland but there are cases, for example, when we use certain providers, where we would rely on standard contractual clauses, which I think many parties rely on, whereby data may be transferred for short periods to other jurisdictions outside the EEA. We would do that in line with the regulations. As I said, our own data protection officer is monitoring the situation constantly and monitoring developments with regard to case law, update us regularly and seek external legal advice to confirm what we are doing is correct.