Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)
Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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That is a good answer, to be fair, and it also complements head 40, which was the subject of Deputy Cairns's question, in that due to a mother's right under subject access request, the little-known other suite of rights under GDPR provides for the right to restrict processing. Therefore, this legislation must restrict that right of restriction in order for everybody to get information they require. When the time comes, we will need a lot of publicity and information on what rights everybody will have. We must not assume that people understand GDPR or know what their rights are on this subject. Providing that would be very helpful.