Politics

McGrath will ‘continue to engage’ on ‘right to be forgotten’ laws

Fianna Fáil senator Catherine Ardagh seeks meeting with the Minister for Finance with the aim of rescheduling bill

Michael McGrath, Minister for Finance: A spokesman for the minister said the right to be forgotten for cancer survivors being penalised by insurance companies was an ‘important policy matter’ and was ‘already being considered at EU level’. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Michael McGrath will “continue to engage” with frustrated senators on a bill that his department stalled last year which would have stopped cancer survivors being penalised by insurance companies.

The Minister for Finance’s intervention comes as the Business Post has learned that Catherine Ardagh, the Fianna Fáil senator who introduced the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2022 to the Seanad, threatened to vote against the government and lose the party whip after the cabinet approved an ...