Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2020-11-04
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Holly Cairns (SD), Cork South-West

The Government's recent acknowledgment of people's rights to their own information through personal data access requests is very welcome. I and many others presume that this right applies not only to the data from the mother and baby homes commission, but to data relating to the Ryan report and the McAleese archives. These were sealed a very long time ago. Will the Taoiseach confirm that all survivors of institutional abuse will be able to access their own personal data?

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Sitting date: 2020-11-04