Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Denis Kelleher:

Yes. If one had a Department with a system that was failing to process some quite basic access requests it is easy to see how one could get 1,000 such claims. We would then be into €15 million. It is a significant issue. With regard to claims in the past, it is difficult to say. Claims have been settled in the past for figures of €10,000 for things like failure to secure a CCTV, for example. There are currently differing views as to how much claims would settle for. It is likely, however, that they would be significant.

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