Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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434. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he has taken in his Department further to the Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's statement (details supplied) that the Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 is needed to provide a legal basis for certain data transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31625/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 in its current format will provide the legal basis for sharing data, including personal data, among certain public sector bodies and will assist in stipulating the specific safeguards that should be put in place for such data sharing arrangements.

As the Bill is still under consideration by Government, my Department is not in a position to prepare an implementation plan until the final requirements specified in the legislation are known.  My Department will introduce whatever measures are necessary to implement the Bill, once it has been passed.