Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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296. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the changes she has made to allow access by persons to their own data held by her Department and bodies under its aegis following the introduction of the general data protection regulation, GDPR; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31464/18]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018, my Department and the Offices under its aegis have made a number of changes to allow access by persons to their own personal data.

These changes include the design of a dedicated Data Protection area on our corporate website which sets out the changes to data protection practices introduced by the GDPR. This includes the publication of our revised Data Privacy Statement, together with an updated Subject Access Request (SAR) application form and detailed information on how data subjects (the "individual") can access their own personal data that is held within my Department or in one of its Offices. A dedicated mailbox called dataprotection@dbei.gov.ie has also been set up to assist members of the public in submitting their personal data access requests. A number of targeted GDPR training and awareness sessions have also been delivered by our Data Protection Officer (DPO) to staff in Business Units across my Department and its Offices who are particularly involved in the processing of personal data. Each of these sessions has included a module on Data Subject Access Requests (SARs) and good administrative practices to ensure that personal data access requests are dealt with as efficiently as possible when they are submitted to my Department and its Offices.