Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 137:

In page 135, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following:"(7) Subject to subsection (8), a Committee referred to in subsection (1), (2) or (3) may make rules—

(a) authorising the disclosure, for the purpose of facilitating the fair and accurate reporting of the proceedings, to a bona fide member of the Press or broadcast media and at the member’s request, of information contained in a record of proceedings before a court for which the Committee is the rule-making authority, and

(b) prescribing any conditions subject to which such disclosure is to be made.

(8) Rules made under subsection (7)—

(a) shall not apply to proceedings required by law to be held otherwise than in public, and

(b) shall apply subject to any order made or direction given by a court in the proceedings concerned.".

These amendments relate to the processing of personal data in circumstances in which the controller is a court acting in a judicial capacity. It provides for the making of court rules by the rules committees of the superior courts, of the Circuit Court where applicable and of the District Court in respect of personal data contained in court records. Amendment No. 137 extends the scope of such court rules to include matters relating to the disclosure of such data for the purpose of facilitating fair and accurate reporting of court proceedings. Amendment No. 138 extends the scope of section 159 of the Bill to include any "list or schedule of court proceedings or hearings in court proceedings".

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