John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

People telling the Minister they are happy with it does not make it lawful. This concerns not just the Data Protection Commissioner.

The Comptroller and Auditor General described the standard authentication framework environment, SAFE, process as a mass registration of the population to a specific standard in a 2015 report. It is not only me, the Data Protection Commissioner or the organisations that have serious concerns about the unlawful retention of people's personal data and how that can be used.

The Minister's response is unsatisfactory. We will follow it up later in the boarder discussion. She keeps citing facts and laws but we have not seen them. I will put a question to her and follow it up later. To follow on from the issue Deputy O'Dea raised, which I raised last week in terms of the advice from the Attorney General, the Taoiseach said last week he had received third party legal advice. The Minister said there is a precedent and reasons the Attorney General's advice cannot be given but there is no reason the third party legal advice cannot be given. The Minister might answer that question as it is critical.

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