Seanad debates

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage

 

10:30 am

Photo of John CrownJohn Crown (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That would be a different form of data collection, of the type undertaken in registries for research purposes. In this instance, this is notification of what a specific person had done, which becomes utterly irrelevant if there is not a living child resulting from it. While I do in general trust the integrity of the data systems of our public systems, there have been occasions when they have broken down. It could happen that they could be misused. One could easily imagine a situation whereby this data could be misused, not by the Minister or this Administration but in the future for political purposes.

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