Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-06-19
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I wish to add a single sentence. Briefly on the rights issue, I want to signal that I may include on Report Stage a version of the right to information. This relates to sections 18 and 19 of the Bill. We may not reach them if this debate is guillotined, but I want to signal the importance of ensuring subject access requests for data. There are very narrow purposes for which the information will be transferred to the Minister and used. They need to include people's rights around their information in the context of subject access requests, being able to build cases themselves or unrelated issues in terms of what they have experienced, including what they have experienced in their engagement with the redress scheme. I just wanted to signal that I might come back on those two areas through a revised version of this proposal on Report Stage.

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Sitting date: 2025-06-19