Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Allied Irish Banks

4:00 pm

Mr. Bernard Byrne:

The Deputy has mentioned human error. Obviously human error was an element of the overall position. In total, the use of encryption is key at this point. Increasingly, the information that flows around the organisation is held on encrypted or protected devices. It is not the norm and is unusual for printed information to exist. The situation has evolved quite a lot over the recent past. It would not have been unusual for people to have information, that is, data that exist. Policies and procedures develop all of the time around protection lists. We are reviewing the whole position in terms of examining this particular instance and how it arose. It is not the norm. It is unusual that it happened in that context. It is something, as the Deputy has said, that we are addressing in terms of reviewing the overall policy and position around the matter. Do my colleagues with to add anything?

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