Waterford's Sinn Féin TD says his party have not breached any data protection laws with their voter database.
It's understood the personal information of voters is being stored on an internal party database.
Local TD and Health Spokesperson, David Cullinane says there was nothing secret about it.
Speaking on Déise Today he said concerns are unfounded:
"This is an absolute load of nonsense and it's a big ball of smoke that people will see over the next number of days and weeks.
"First of all, there is no secret database. The database is the electoral register. The electoral register is available for any citizen to buy.
"You can go into the City and County Council here in Waterford, you pay a fee and you get a copy of the electoral register, which gives you the names and addresses of everybody who's registered to vote.
"And that is then used by every candidate and by every party."
Deputy Cullinane says the database wasn't shut down, but they made changes in compliance with GDPR:
"We didn't close down the database, what we did was we had to change the portal address because it was compromised, because the Independent named the source of the location...
"So we had no choice but to do it to be in compliance with the data protection rules. And we are in full compliance and I can guarantee I don't see any issue arising out of this."
The Data Protection Commission has also reportedly written to the party seeking answers to questions they have over this database.
However, Deputy Cullinane says this is nothing unusual:
"Of course the Data Protection is going to write to us. It's individuals - whether it's journalists or political opponents writing to the Data Commissioner. Of course they have a responsibility to follow it up.
"And we'll respond and there won't be any issue. They've written to us before on other issues in relation to funding, where similar complaints had been made by members of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, and again it has come to nothing. We are in full compliance."
