Hielprik DNA Ierland

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Heb nog een krantenartikel waarin een Nederlandse Commissaris van
Politie voorstelt de Nederlandse hielprikken voor hetzelfde doel te
gebruiken.
Die liggen in de kelders van het RIVM.

Groet / Cees

EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 8.1, 13 January 2010
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6. An Irish law for a DNA database
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The Irish Government has announced that it will publish legislation this
week to set up a national DNA database. The Bill follows a 2005 Report
of the Law Reform Commission on Establishment of a DNA Database but was
delayed by the European Court of Human Rights action in S and Marper vs.
the United Kingdom and has since been revised in light of that case.

The legislation proposes to allow Gardaí (Police) to forcibly take
samples (such as hair, saliva, nail clippings or blood) from those
suspected of committing a criminal offence carrying a possible sentence
of five years imprisonment or more. Samples will be stored indefinitely
where suspects are convicted; where persons are acquitted or released
without charge they will still be retained for a three year period. 4.1
million euros has been allocated for the start-up costs associated with
the database in 2010.

In 2007, the Irish Human Rights Commission was critical of a previous
draft of the legislation. Until the full Bill is published it is unclear
to what extent it will address these concerns.

In a separate development, it has emerged that a Dublin children's
hospital has been holding DNA records of almost every person born in
Ireland since 1984 without consent. The Temple Street Children's
Hospital has acted as a national centre for "heel prick tests" which
involve the taking of a blood sample from each newborn child and using
that sample to screen for disease.
However, the hospital does not destroy those samples when screening is
complete but instead retains those samples indefinitely, linked to the
individual. There are approximately 1.54 million samples held on this
database, which would include the overwhelming majority of Irish people
aged 25 or younger. The hospital is currently under investigation by the
Data Protection Commissioner who may order the destruction of these samples.

Law Reform Commission, Report on the Establishment of a DNA Database
(11.2005)
http://www.lawreform.ie/DNA%20Database%20Report%20No1.pdf

Irish Human Rights Commission, Safeguards in DNA Database Scheme of Bill
'Inadequate' (8.08.2007)
http://www.ihrc.ie/press_releases/newsarticle.asp?NID=215&NCID=12&T=N

Connolly, Suspects forced to give DNA samples under new legislation
(20.12.2009)
http://www.sbpost.ie/news/suspects-forced-to-give-dna-samples-under-new-legislation-46388.html

Connolly, New DNA Bill faces opposition (20.12.2009)
http://www.sbpost.ie/news/ireland/new-dna-bill-faces-opposition-46369.html

Dáil debates (10.12.2009)
http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2009-12-10.551.0

Tighe, Hospital keeps secret DNA file (27.12.2009)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6968561.ece

Tighe, Records stolen from hospital that held secret DNA database
(10.01.2010)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6982446.ece

(Contribution by TJ McIntyre - EDRi-member Digital Rights Ireland)

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