Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)
Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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I have a quick question for both witnesses. Listening to this discussion, it feels like we have been in a somewhat parallel universe on this for some time. We have been told for so long we simply cannot legislate to give unfettered access rights to information, despite many of us arguing for years that I. O'T. v. B. had been misinterpreted, over-interpreted and so on. The witnesses are saying the minimum base is the GDPR, our legislation must simply give effect to GDPR rights and anything more restrictive than GDPR will simply not be valid. It is really helpful for us to hear that. Is it an accurate summary?