14A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Authority may furnish to a Department of State, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, An tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas, Solas, the Central Applications Office and any other body the Authority considers appropriate information which comes to its attention in the course of performing its functions, and which relates to one or more functions of that other body.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to information that is personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation; the furnishing to others of personal data by the Authority shall be in accordance with the general law, and in particular:

(a) the General Data Protection Regulation; and

(b) as applicable—

(i) the Data Protection Act 2018; and

(ii) any Act of the Oireachtas that is passed, before, on or after the commencement of section 6 of the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Act 2019, for the purpose of, amongst other things, the regulation of the sharing of personal data (or both personal data and other information) between public bodies.

(3) In subsection (2) "General Data Protection Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.]