Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 741: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of Department owned computer desktops or laptops or other data devices, such as blackberries and memory keys, reported lost, missing or stolen from his Department in each year from 2002 to 2007; the number of these that were later recovered or found; the number still missing; if any sensitive or private data was compromised; the measures in place within his Department to secure such portable or at risk data devices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1519/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Departmental mobile phones do not store customer data and while departmentally supplied laptops can be used to access critical customer information such data is not retained on the device following access. Industry standard security protocols such as password protection and security software are deployed to protect all departmentally supplied devices and preserve the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive data.

The following data devices, officially supplied by the Department, were reported stolen in the years in question:

2002 — One Laptop computer — while staff member was on public transport

2002 — Three mobile phones — while being returned to Headquarters

2004 — One Laptop — house break-in

2006 — Two laptops — one house break-in and one car break-in

2007 — One laptop — house break-in.

None of these devices have been recovered since.