Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the training her Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on general data protection regulation, GDPR, legislation; when it will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29846/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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My Department has rolled out a number of GDPR training solutions to date.

There have been a series of GDPR training and awareness sessions across the Department’s network of offices and to date, over 2500 staff have attended these sessions. These sessions will be ongoing over the summer and beyond. Separately to this, the Department has commissioned a GDPR training video, with an introduction by the Secretary General, which has been issued to all staff, highlighting the main aspects of the GDPR and implications on day-to-day operations.

In addition, the current One DEASP data protection training module has been updated to include relevant GDPR content and all staff are expected to take this module in line with training requirements on foot of the GDPR.

There is also a dedicated GDPR site on my Department’s intranet site which contains a number of newsletters on various aspects of the project as well as frequently asked questions and links to other resources.

Finally, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as the Contracting Authority has issued a request for tenders in relation to the award of a contract for the provision of service to deliver training for Data Protection Officers within the civil service and bodies across the public sector. The submitted tenders have been assessed and the winning tenderer will be notified shortly.