Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have not seen the article in detail, but my understanding, including from what has been stated in the Chamber, is that it refers to the 2018 Act and its amendment of section 39 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. That is not what my Bill addresses. Rather, my Bill addresses the transfer of the database from the archive to Tusla. That is an important point. We have all highlighted our concerns about the interpretation that I am relying on of the breadth of the amended section 39. I indicated my intention to address that through engagement with the Attorney General. My Department has been engaging with the DPC for the past week. We conducted the initial DPIA. Where the DPC has raised any issue about areas where the interpretation of the Attorney General has conflicted with the DPC's interpretation of EU law, we have referred those issues to the Attorney General's office.

It is important to state that the interaction between section 39 and GDPR is not contained within this Bill. It is a-----