Data Sharing and Governance Act 2019

Publication

60. (1) The lead agency in respect of a data-sharing agreement shall send to the Minister—

(a) within 10 days of the execution of the agreement, a copy of the agreement, and

(b) within 10 days of the accession to or withdrawal from the agreement of any party, notification of such accession or withdrawal in writing.

(2) The Minister shall cause copies of the documents received by him or her under subsection (1)

(a) to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas, and

(b) to be sent to the Board.

(3) The Minister shall publish, on a website maintained by him or her, a list of all documents received by him or her under subsection (1).

(4) The lead agency in respect of a data-sharing agreement shall publish a copy of the agreement on the website maintained by it as soon as practicable after sending a copy of the agreement to the Minister in accordance with subsection (1).

(5) The Board shall publish the following on the website maintained by it following receipt of a copy of the data-sharing agreement in accordance with subsection (2):

(a) a copy of the agreement;

(b) where a data protection impact assessment has been carried out in relation to the processing proposed to be undertaken under the proposed agreement, a summary of the matters referred to in Article 35(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation;

(c) a copy of the recommendations, if any, made under section 57 (2).

(6) The Minister shall, on request from a Committee, send a copy of a data-sharing agreement received by him or her under subsection (1) to that Committee.

(7) In subsection (6), “Committee” means a Committee appointed by either House of the Oireachtas or jointly by both Houses of the Oireachtas, other than—

(a) the Committee on Members’ Interests of Dáil Éireann or the Committee on Members’ Interests of Seanad Éireann, or

(b) a subcommittee of a Committee referred to in paragraph (a).