Ms Helen Dixon:

In terms of 2019, we obtained most of the budget demand that we had submitted to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for 2019. So already, over and above 2018, our total budget had increased to €15.28 million for this year. So, it was €11.669 million for 2018 and it increased to €15.28 million for 2019.

We have made a very considerable demand to the Department in terms of the 2020 budget. We have sought a total of €5.9 million to bring our annual budget to €21.1 million. In particular, we are seeking extra funding of €4.74 million. We have made a lengthy submission to the Department setting out how our experience of the first year of operation of the GDPR has demonstrated to us that the volumes and the complexity, and the nature of the role that we have, is such that we remain significantly under-resourced.