Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

A constituent of mine who requested a file from a hospital some years ago was told they could not have it because it was the property of the health board. I tabled a question in 2006 on a specific incident involving a file being lost to which I received a detailed reply from the HSE advising that all files would be destroyed in a proper manner. Given that the file I inquired about a number of years ago was more than likely the property of the health board and that I was told the file I inquired about in 2006 had been destroyed in a proper manner, what assurances can the Minister give the House that, under the Data Protection Act, these files have been destroyed properly and that other such files are in the examiner's office?

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