Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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693. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33840/20]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A total of nine confirmed data protection breaches were identified in the Department of Defence in 2019.

Given the assessed level of risk involved to the data subjects, it was decided, in eight of the cases, that there was no requirement to report them to the Data Protection Commission (DPC). These eight breaches did not involve the disclosure or loss of multiple documents or amounts of data and where the breach involved such documents or data it related to single individuals.

One data breach was reported to the DPC, who did not request any further information and did not take or require any further action regarding the breach.