Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 29 seeks to ensure that the Bill complies with the Data Protection Acts - it is a technical amendment - by prescribing the data protection obligations that will arise for all interveners under section 8. All interveners will be obliged not to attempt to obtain or to use information acquired in relation to a relevant person other than for the purposes of the decision. Interveners will also be required to ensure that the relevant information is safely stored to prevent unauthorised access, use and disclosure. Furthermore, a requirement is proposed which would require an intervener to dispose of the information when that information is no longer required. I think that covers Senator Norris's point regarding the deletion of text from another section; it is simply transposed and made stronger.