Letter to the Editor: Data Protection & Housing
The Editor,
Letters Page,
The Irish Times.
Dear Editor,
Bon Frewen (letters 17th August) rightly questions the role of the Data Protection Commissioner. The same Commissioner has recently blocked Councillors from exercising our supervisory role (not an allocation role) in relation to Housing in Dublin City Council. This does not serve citizens well. The same rules were used to refuse information re the electoral register from the 1960’s, ’70s and ’80’s . It is time for a little sense and a massive reduction in the nonsensical powers of that office holder.
Yours sincerely
Councillor Dermot Lacey
