Amendment No. 6 inserts the phrase "including personal data that is required by law to be made available to the public" in the new subsection (8). It is intended to address the problem of public data such as registers being used for direct marketing purposes. The amendment means that where personal data obtained from such a source are to be used for direct marketing, the persons to whom the data relate must be informed by the data controller that they may object, free of charge, to any such processing. The amendment will effectively address difficulties that have arisen in this area during the years and which have given rise to complaints to the Data Protection Commissioner. It replaces the earlier text of subsection (5) intended for inclusion in section 1 of the Act.