Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There are three amendments in this group, amendments Nos. 94, 95 and 97, which concern administrative fines. Amendments Nos. 94 and 95 delete section 131(11) because the provision to which the subsection was connected, that is, section 139(2) is also being deleted. These provisions, which dealt with the rule that two sanctions may not be imposed for the same offence or infringement, have been deleted on the advice of the Office of the Attorney General.

Amendment No. 97 inserts subsections (4), (5) and (6) in section 139. They outline the procedure to be followed when the data protection commission imposes an administrative fine on a controller or processor. They also provide that all income from fines received by the commission must "be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer".