Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 September 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Financial Statements of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

9:00 am

Ms Helen Dixon:

We are following the same process that we do in all cases. I briefly mentioned in my opening statement that in similar circumstances in June 2018 we issued a very substantial report on findings to Yahoo EMEA Limited. This is detailed in our second annual report from last year. We invited that company to voluntarily comply with a very clear set of directions. In that case, while not particularly pleased with our findings, the company did voluntarily comply. We have supervised its compliance with those requirements. It depends. There have, of course, been private sector companies that have appealed our decisions. There is a right of appeal.