Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office
Chapter 5 – Implementation of Financial Management Shared Services
4:00 pm
Ms Hilary Murphy-Fagan:
Yes. Given the sensitive data that we hold in our systems and that we transact, data protection is absolutely paramount to the business of the NSSO. Every staff member in the NSSO, me included, takes data protection very seriously. We had some data breaches during 2019 and 2020 but I am pleased to inform the committee that the number of data breaches continues to reduce year on year. The numbers of data breaches reported to the Data Protection Commissioner, DPC, were 27 in 2019 and five in 2020. These are data-----
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