Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2021: Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board

9:30 am

Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin:

What I said was in the absence of a contractual provision waiving the right to privacy and consenting to the publication of the salary, the advice we received is that we would find ourselves in breach of data protection and privacy law and the Payment of Wages Act because all employees have a right to privacy.