Mr. Niall Cody:

We take data protection very seriously and treat taxpayer confidentiality very seriously. All the information we have in our systems are collected under law and protected in our secure systems. The big challenge for a tax administration is collecting enough data, using the data and protecting the data. We have a very strong relationship with the Data Protection Commissioner and when there is a breach we immediately report it. Our REAP system takes all our third party data and taxpayer return information and risk-rates them against all other cases. There are then audit trails of access to a taxpayer's record, which must only be for business use.