Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

That goes beyond the obligations under data protection and the principles of GDPR, namely, data minimisation and having restricted access. It goes way beyond that when one is disclosing the sort of information around hard, soft or strong opposition and when a person voted. There is clearly potential in the Abú system for analytics and statistics. There are clear options in it to go way beyond merely recording what people have on clipboards in terms of a paper trail. The training manual that was published states:

Abú records multiple contacts and we will be using that to present info differently in time. This provides for a practical recording of the verify and engagement phases as well as the identify stage.

I ask the Deputy to explain that.