Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad Éireann — 2022-07-13 ============================================================ Lynn Ruane (IND), University of Dublin To facilitate my understanding, the Minister should correct me if I misrepresent what was said. She said the period of 12 months meets the requirement regarding what is necessary. Does what is necessary entail only an amount of time and not the individual reasons for the holding of the data? --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2022-07-13/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-09-21T01:01:04+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-07-13