Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 840: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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 her 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 her Department to secure such portable or at risk data devices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1507/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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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 my Department are set out in the following table:

No computer desktops, or other data devices e.g. memory keys were reported lost, missing or stolen. When a device, such as a laptop or Blackberry, is reported lost or stolen, access by that device to the Department's computer network is immediately suspended and use of the device is blocked. In all cases where devices were reported stolen, the theft was reported to the Garda. To date, no sensitive or private data has been compromised. All computer desktops and laptops are protected by use of a user-ID and password. The Department is currently examining the procurement of encryption software to enhance the security of laptops and other data devices such as memory keys.