Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the training his Department and agencies under its aegis will receive on GDPR legislation; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29850/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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This year, in preparation for the implementation of the GDPR, Information Officers were appointed in each business unit across my Department, with GDPR training being provided to these officers as well as to senior management. The Department has had a Data Protection Officer in place since the beginning of the year who is committed to raising awareness in relation to GDPR. The DPO, working with the Department's Training Unit, is putting arrangements in place to extend training on the principles of data protection to all other staff of the Department; this should be completed over the course of the second half of the year.

GDPR training in the agencies under the aegis of my Department is an operational matter for each agency. Arrangements have been put in place by each agency to facilitate the provision of information by State Bodies directly to members of the Oireachtas.

The contact email address for each agency is as follows: