Alex White (Dublin South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

These amendments relate to the lists of persons in Schedules 1 and 2. Schedule 1 lists the authorised disclosees. Schedule 2 lists specified persons. Specified persons may access the IHI register and process the IHI and other identifying data on it for a relevant purpose. Authorised disclosees do not have access to the IHI register but they are persons to whom a specified person may disclose an individual health identifier and other identifying particulars for a particular secondary purpose. Following further consideration by the Department of Social Protection it is not considered necessary for An tArd Chláraitheoir to be an authorised disclosee. Amendment No. 12 therefore removes An tArd Chláraitheoir from Schedule 1.

Amendments Nos 13 and 14 are concerned with moving the Health Research Board from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 since the Health Research Board operates the national drugs-related death index and other national health databases.

Amendment No. 14 also includes the Child and Family Agency as a specified person in Schedule 2. It was not possible to do this in the Bill when published as the legislation establishing the Child and Family Agency had not yet been enacted. Specified persons can access the IHI register and process identifying data for a relevant purpose. Subject to legal advice, there may an amendment to section 10 which provides for this matter to clarify access to data.