Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of things have been said about me here today: that I have been dismissive of Members, that I am arrogant; and that I have been incredulous about the commissioner's refusal to meet us. If I have ever been dismissive of any Member, I give an apology right here and now. That was never my intention. I understand that we have differences of opinion on a wide variety of policy delivery in the State. That is okay. It is healthy and normal. I do not, however, believe that I have ever disrespected any Member in the House. I have certainly never disrespected the DPC or any of the staff members in the commission's office. I asked twice for the meeting, not because I wanted to challenge the legal findings in the report, but because there were inconsistencies in the directions in the report, the directions in the letter that accompanied the report and the utterances made by Data Protection Commissioner in three interviews. I am at a loss to know what exactly I was supposed to comply with and all I wanted to do was sit down and have a conversation so I could rule out the inconsistencies and know exactly what the directions are, so when I was deliberating on what we were going to do around the directions, I would know exactly what I was deliberating on. I do not think this was too insulting. I do not believe it was questioning the commissioner's authority, and it was not questioning the findings in the report given that there were inconsistencies across the three mediums.

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