Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion

Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

I thank Ms Canavan and Mr. Lowry for covering the data protection elements. The legal basis for the EU digital Covid certificate is in the regulation. Much attention was paid to building in privacy in design at the EU level as well as at the national level. We have all the data controller and data processing agreements which, as Mr. Lowry said, are sufficient to support the certificate generation, which is under way. We are now looking to the data processing arrangements that are needed to extend and develop the call centre that will be available. That work is keeping pace with the operational roll-out.