Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With all due respect, telling people that they can appeal a decision when the information is already taken down is no good. The Minister sits at the table of the European Council of Ministers along with her colleagues. I ask her and her colleagues to provide clarification and direction to the technology companies across Europe on this. In terms of convictions for the assault and rape of children and women and adults in this or any other country in Europe, those individuals should be refused point-blank the right to have these records erased. This cannot be allowed to happen. The only defence Google provides is in regard to the length of time since the information was first put online. Google is not carrying out the assessment that the Minister says should be carried out. It should not be up to the victims to have to appeal that. They are the ones who have been abused in the first place. They should not be the ones to enforce this.

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