A local TD remains confident the Data Protection Commissioner won't find any wrongdoing by his party over their voter database.
Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald admitted this week that there were one or two minor breaches of requirements.
But Waterford's David Cullinane says there is nothing of concern in the database as it's simply information from the electoral register.
He says it's being blown out of all proportion:
"First of all, there were no major breaches of the Data Protection rules. There were two areas that we were asked to approve, on foot of the interaction that we had with the Data Protection Commissioner," he told Damien Tiernan on Deise Today.
"No political party was in compliance with any of those two areas.
"We have since fully complied with those and I don't think they're major breaches of data at all.
"The substantive allegations that were made against Sinn Féin by our political opponents have not been proven and I stand by what I said - I think it is a ball of smoke."
Continuing, Deputy Cullinane said he felt his party were being unfairly targetted over this debacle, when there was nothing "nefarious" about the database.
He also told the programme that people were far too quick to jump the gun:
"What I would say is that people should wait until the Data Commissioner looks at all of this and adjudicates on all of this. We have been asked to cooperate with the Data Commissioner and we have.
"What I'm saying is it is not a secret database, it's an internal database in the same way that every organisation has internal databases."
You can, meanwhile, listen back to the full Deise Today from this morning by clicking below here...
