Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is disingenuous to suggest that I would recommend putting children at risk in any form. Has Tusla learnt anything from the lessons of the HIQA probe that the Minister ordered on its disastrous handling of the allegations made against Sergeant Maurice McCabe?

With regard to the new IT system, Tusla's head of project management stated publicly that the agency intends to keep all the data in the childcare database "in perpetuity", and that it will then work out a new policy and remove data if necessary. The GDPR, however, has a clear storage limitation principle. The same principle applies in any case under the old data protection directive, and under the previous Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, that personal data should not be retained longer than is necessary. Can the Minister confirm that personal data that is no longer required will be deleted?

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