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. John Carroll:
In regard to the question on our membership data, that is all stored in Ireland. As mentioned earlier in regard to the electoral registers, they are stored locally in Ireland as well. We also use a service, Poppulo, a company based in Cork, to provide communications to supporters who consent to that information on our website. It uses servers in Dublin, Cork and London, so that is outside the EU, as we understand it. We received confirmation again yesterday from our data protection advisers that it is in line with the current data protection arrangements. We have a data processing agreement with it since 2018.