Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the policies in place to secure portable electronic data devices in his Department; if those policies have been published; if so, the locations where they can be viewed; if a system of whole disk encryption has been rolled out to all laptops in his Department; the date by which he expects a satisfactory security policy on portable electronic data devices to have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32398/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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This Department has been co-operating with the Working Group on the Protection of Personal Data, which is in the process of drafting guidelines on protecting the confidentiality of personal data and guidance on the development of a code of practice in this regard. It is intended that this documentation will form the basis for this Department's renewed policy on the protection of personal or confidential data, including the security of portable electronic data devices. The Department is currently in the process of rolling out full disk encryption on all its laptops and expects to complete this in the next four weeks. As a rule, personal data is not held on portable electronic devices by the Department.

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 428: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism 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 to date in 2008; the number of same later recovered or found; the number still missing; if sensitive or private data was compromised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32413/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I would refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 1149 answered on Wednesday, 24th September 2008.