Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1450. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has developed a privacy impact assessment as part of the establishment of the eligibility assessment system for the universal and targeted child care subsidy; if so, if this has been submitted to the Data Protection Commissioner; and if so, the results of this assessment. [20181/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The planned work processes for the administration of the affordable child care scheme (ACS) will be considered from a data protection perspective, with the imminent EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in mind.

The services of data protection specialists have been secured to undertake an initial privacy impact assessment (PIA) on the planned work processes for the new scheme. This PIA exercise has commenced.

Once the PIA is finalised any recommendations made will be taken into account and a data protection strategy for the delivery and administration of the scheme will be developed.

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs intends to engage with the data protection commissioner at the end of May 2017, providing a comprehensive overview of the intended data protection strategy to support the scheme delivery in accordance with data protection guidelines and the imminent GDPR.

The expertise of the data protection specialists will be utilised throughout the delivery of the ACS project, to consider all functional requirements and business processes from a data protection perspective. Data protection policies and procedures will also be developed.