Written answers

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Departmental Properties

8:00 pm

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 1188: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 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. [1518/08]

Photo of Brian Lenihan JnrBrian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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No data has been compromised because of lost data devices. In 2005, arising from burglary, four laptops containing no sensitive or private data were stolen from a Departmental building.

No desktops have been lost or stolen.

The Department has no record of stolen Blackberries, although a small number have been lost and not recovered to date. They were quickly missed, the accounts frozen and the data removed by the server. There was no loss of data.

The Department's IT system is designed to allow staff who need access to official information off-site to access the Department's information via a secure portal. This means that they are working on the Department's IT network and no Departmental data rests on the device they are using to access the portal. The capability to download information on to devices such as USB keys is heavily restricted. There have been no reports of data being lost or compromised.

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