Access to Irish Records in Danger?

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Michael Merrigan

Access to Irish Records in Danger?

Legg inn av Michael Merrigan » 12 okt 2006 23:46:59

A Chairde,

As reported earlier, two Bills have come to the attention of members of
the Genealogical Society of Ireland - the Defamation Bill, 2006 and the
Privacy Bill, 2006 as there is concern about the apparent conflict
between the Defamation Bill, 2006 - Section 16 (3) & Schedule 1 (10)
and the Privacy Bill, 2006 - Section 4 (3) (a) in respect of bona fide
genealogical research and data obtained from a public register.

Newsgroup members are invited to read the main article in the October
2006 issue of "Ireland's Genealogical Gazette" - the monthly
newsletter of the Genealogical Society of Ireland on
http://www.familyhistory.ie or read the article in "The Sunday Times" of
last Sunday - see link below.

Should the Privacy Bill, 2006 be enacted as published it could impede
genealogical and heraldic research and frustrate the publication of
such through the threat of litigation. Officials could avail of this
legislation to arbitrarily restrict or deny access to records on the
grounds that such access could facilitate an infringement of rights and
protections afforded by the legislation.

The Genealogical Society of Ireland has asked the Minister of Justice,
Equality & Law Reform, Mr. Michael McDowell, TD, to insert a clause
excluding bona fide genealogical research from the provisions of both
the Defamation Bill, 2006 and the Privacy Bill, 2006. The Minister has
written to the Society insisting that nothing in either Bill could
inhibit bona fide genealogical research, though he didn't mention the
publication of same.

Messages of support for the Society's stand on these Bills have been
received from Irish Senators and Teachtai Dala (MPs) and from
genealogists at home and from overseas.

For ease of access:-

The Sunday Times (article)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 93785.html

"Ireland's Genealogical Gazette" (main article)
http://www.familyhistory.ie (under Gazette)

Privacy Bill, 2006
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bill ... b4406s.pdf

Defamation Bill, 2006
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bill ... b4306s.pdf


Kindest regards,

Michael Merrigan
http://www.familyhistory.ie

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