Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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452. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the staffing complement and resources of his Department's data protection officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31487/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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A Data Protection Officer was appointed by my Department in advance of and in accordance with the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation EU 679/2016.

The Data Protection Officer is leading the Data Management Division of the Department and also has other related work responsibilities within the wider remit of data management, including inter alia, the ISO 27001:2013 Information Security standard and Electronic Records Management. 

The Data Protection Unit has a complement of 5 staff, directly reporting to the Data Protection Officer.