Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 32 as drafted is strictly limited in its application to information relating to the alleged commission of an offence under a relevant enactment, or the contravention of a relevant enactment. For this reason, the Deputy's proposed amendment to subsection 3 is inappropriate, as it is inconsistent with the section taken as a whole. The Deputy is seeking to amend section 32, the disclosure of information relating to offences to other bodies. He is seeking to go beyond using the information for an offence, which is a legitimate grounds for sharing information, to have a very wide dispersion of information for any purpose. That goes beyond the provisions of privacy within which the information is provided to various bodies. This is going well beyond what is envisaged by this section and it is not something I could support. We are ensuring that information that could assist in the prosecution of an offence is shared. That is the purpose of the section.

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