Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Act 2025

Definitions

2. In this Act—

“Act of 2012” means the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012 ;

“Act of 2023” means the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023 ;

“dissolution day” means the day appointed by order under section 7 ;

“dissolved body” shall be construed in accordance with section 8 ;

“enactment” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act 2005 ;

“former resident” shall be construed in accordance with section 3 of the Act of 2012;

“General Data Protection Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 20161 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation);

“health support payment” means a payment to which a former resident is entitled under section 5 (1);

“Minister” means the Minister for Education and Youth;

“personal data” has the same meaning as it has in the General Data Protection Regulation;

“processing”, in relation to personal data, has the same meaning as it has in the General Data Protection Regulation;

“relevant participant” has the same meaning as it has in the Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Act 2015 ;

“relevant person” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2023;

“special categories of personal data” has the same meaning as it has in the Data Protection Act 2018 ;

“suitable and specific measures” means measures to safeguard the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects (within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation) in processing the personal data of those subjects and may include measures referred to in section 36 (1) of the Data Protection Act 2018 .

1 OJ No. L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1