Written answers

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Department of Justice and Equality

Civil Service Code of Conduct

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the safeguards that exist within the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to prevent conflicts of interest when employees of the Office move to related positions in the private sector. [5065/13]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The staff of the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner are civil servants. The provisions of the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour apply to staff of that Office.

I presume the Deputy is referring to the fact that the Deputy Data Protection Commissioner will shortly leave the employ of the Office. I am advised by the Data Protection Commissioner that he is satisfied that no conflict of interest arises in this case and that he took specific measures, when the intentions of the Deputy Commissioner became known, to ensure that this was the case in practice.

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