Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency
2:00 am
Ms Kate Duggan:
I want to give the Deputy accurate information. We brought in a very comprehensive GDPR programme. We absolutely recognised the level of concern we had as an agency and that our board had in relation to the practices and culture within the agency that had to change to make sure we were GDPR compliant. We do not underestimate that we hold some of the most sensitive information in the State. What I can provide to the committee is, for example, the report I get every month as CEO which sets out any data breaches, what they relate to and where there has been improvement. In terms of the data breach notification, there has been a 66% decrease in the past year in the number of high-risk breaches. That should give assurance of the work undertaken for the decrease, but we are still talking about-----
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