Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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237. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the number of data protection breaches identified within his Department in 2019. [33842/20]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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There were six Personal Data Breaches recorded for my Department in 2019.

In addition, there were 24 Personal Data Breaches recorded for the Offices under the aegis of my Department in 2019.

A total of nine Personal Data Breaches were reported to the Data Protection Commission in 2019.

The decision to report these breaches to the Data Protection Commission was taken by the Data Protection Officer, who is an independent appointed officer, following a full risk analysis of the details pertaining to each personal data breach case. Following the mitigation actions that were put in place to protect the privacy rights and freedoms of the affected individuals, the Data Protection Commission were satisfied that no further action was required.