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Welcome to our Summer Newsletter, which we hope you find helpful and interesting. It has been a busy few months here at Hayes. We recently announced the promotion of two new partners – Áine Coghill in our Property department and Katy Meade in our Healthcare department.

With the continued increase in house prices over the past number of years; there has been renewed focus on how this will affect the annual bill faced every year by home owners for Local Property Tax.

In April 2019, the Government presented the Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019 to the Dáil.

February 2019 saw the Data Protection Commission publish its first annual report since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation on 25 May 2018.

Since the decision of the European Court of Justice (as it then was) in Google Spain v Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos (2014), there has been a proliferation of similar applications to search engines and related platforms from private individuals.

In a potentially significant change in Irish competition law enforcement policy, two car dealers have been prosecuted for effecting a business merger without first obtaining Competition and Consumer Protection Commission approval.