Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am unable to accept the amendment which, as we said earlier, arises out of something of a misreading of the purpose of subsection 35(4). As it stands, subsection (4) permits regulations to identify different toolbox measures for different categories of personal data or different categories of controllers. However, it is probably not appropriate to have such a differentiation in all cases. Deputy Daly set out an example. It might be appropriate to apply the same toolbox safeguard measures to different categories of data or on occasion to different categories of controllers. It might, for example, be appropriate to impose the same encryption requirement on different categories of controllers but if the amendment is passed it would prevent that and mean it could not be done.

I am not happy with the amendment and I will not accept it.

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