Mr. James Lawless at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 28th, 2019. See this statement in context.

May 28th, 2019 / 12:40 p.m.

Member, Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Houses of the Oireachtas

It's consistent, but it's also incredibly convenient that it was on the night before the GDPR became effective.

I'll ask another question in the same vein. My understanding is that Facebook is continuing to appeal a number of decisions. The U.K. information commissioner had a negative finding against Facebook recently, which Facebook is appealing. My colleague, Hildegarde Naughton, has talked about the Irish data protection commissioner's findings.

If you're putting your hands up and saying, “We got some things wrong”, and demonstrating good faith, which I would welcome if that were the case, why are you continuing to appeal many of these decisions?

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