Aingeal O'Donoghue

Intent: To update on Google’s efforts to protect children online

Details: Protection of minors online

Intent: Communicate and ensure understanding of business views on EU-US relations.

Details: Meeting to discuss EU-US relations

Intent: The communication highlighted the role of psychological expertise in shaping policy across areas including mental health, digital wellbeing, and youth within Ireland’s EU Presidency agenda, and to secure engagement opportunities (including consultations and policy discussions) for the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA).

Details: Correspondence was issued to the Irish Permanent Representation to the European Union expressing support for Ireland’s mental health priorities for its upcoming EU Council Presidency.

Intent: Risk-based application that focuses obligations on higher-risk cases and reduces burdens for low-risk processing.

Details: Strengthen GDPR implementation and reaffirm risk-based foundations under EU Digital Omnibus.

Intent: Workable safeguards for sensitive data/bias mitigation that protect rights while enabling ongoing monitoring.

Details: Provide clarity on sensitive data inference under EU Digital Omnibus: obligations should apply where intention to infer exists.

Intent: Targeted legislative simplification improving legal certainty, reducing duplication and supporting EU competitiveness.

Details: Support clarified personal data definitions aligned with case law in EU Digital Omnibus.

Intent: Standardised EU breach notification process reducing duplicative reporting and compliance costs.

Details: Introduce a single EU data breach notification form and limit abusive access-rights requests.

Intent: Targeted legislative simplification improving legal certainty, reducing duplication and supporting EU competitiveness.

Details: Clarify in Article 12(5) if Digital Omnibus and related recitals that strong safeguards against misuse are in place, in particular against abusive use of access rights – including requests made in bad faith for purposes other than the protection of personal data –, while ensuring that individuals re, ... Read more

Intent: Targeted legislative simplification improving legal certainty, reducing duplication and supporting EU competitiveness.

Details: Expand EU Commission coordination to reduce fragmentation across Data Protection Authorities.

Intent: Risk-based application that focuses obligations on higher-risk cases and reduces burdens for low-risk processing.

Details: Provide proportionate, risk-based simplification for low-risk cross-border data transfers, including routine, expected, or non-sensitive processing, to reduce unnecessary Transfer Impact Assessment (TIA) burdens while maintaining strong safeguards for higher-risk cases under EU Data legislation.