31. (1) The Minister may establish a database comprising all of the information provided to the Minister under section 25.

(2) The Minister may establish an information system for any or all of the following purposes:

(a) enabling a public service body to access information held on the database referred to in subsection (1);

(b) facilitating the calculation of the entitlement or liability of a person under the Act of 2012;

(c) administering entitlements and liabilities under the Act of 2012.

(3) Where an information system referred to in subsection (2) is established, a public service body shall establish and maintain a connection between that information system and an information system under the control of the public service body in order to facilitate—

(a) the transfer, from that public service body to the Minister, of information requested under section 25, and

(b) the querying by that public service body of the database referred to in subsection (1) and the database, if any, which is part of an information system referred to in subsection (2), and the provision of the results of such querying to that public service body.

(4) The Minister may disclose information to a public service body through an information system referred to in subsection (2), or other secure means, for the purposes described in that subsection.

(5) The Minister shall be the controller in respect of personal data stored on—

(a) the database referred to in subsection (1), and

(b) the database, if any, which is part of an information system referred to in subsection (2),

for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation.