Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 68: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if laptops, art works, paintings, sculptures, computers, mobile telephones, blackberries or other equipment has been lost or stolen from her Department or its agencies since 2007 to date in 2009; the circumstances surrounding the items' disappearance; if action has been taken to recover the item or items; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4016/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Since 2007, 2 mobile phones, 2 blackberries and 2 laptop computers have been reported by staff of my Department / Offices of my Department as having been lost or stolen. These items were stolen from individual offices in the Department or the Offices of the Department. One of the laptop computers was stolen during a Department training course at an external venue. One of the mobile phones was left in a taxi while an officer was on Department business in New York City.

None of those items were recovered. It is the policy of my Department and the Offices of my Department to report the theft of any equipment of value to the Garda Síochána or other relevant police authority. The Department uses various security technologies, which can prevent access to or can remotely disable ICT devices when reported stolen or missing.

I am not in a position to provide the information sought by the Deputy in relation to the State Agencies under the control of my Department as such information falls within the day to day administration of State Agencies concerned.