Regina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are on the Minister's second amendment, which compels the investigation to give us a report by 30 October, and give an extension before it winds up, until 28 February 2021. The Minister's response to me on the amendment in the previous section was that he is going to rely on amendment No. 15 to not give information to data subjects on the basis of an amendment. That amendment applied to the workings of the commission whereby they were refusing information to data subjects on the basis of the necessity and proportionality to safeguard the effective functioning of the commission. The commission is to be stood down on 28 February 2021. What basis is the Minister going to use in the Department to refuse data requests from people after 28 February 2021? If the Minister is going to continue to refuse the data set, as he said he would, even though he knows it is morally wrong, what will the Minister give as a reply to people when they make those requests? If it is anything like what is being given by the commission, it makes a real insincerity of what we are doing here today.