Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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376. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures in place to ensure social welfare reviews and investigations are compliant with GDPR requirements of her Department. [41174/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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As a data controller, my Department takes its data protection obligations very seriously and has rigorous data protection policies, procedures and guidelines relating to the protection of customer data. These policies, procedures and guidelines apply to all of our schemes and are followed when carrying out social welfare reviews and investigations.

A Data Management Programme Board is in place to oversee data protection in the Department.

Staff of the Department are regularly reminded of data protection obligations and the importance of data protection is promoted through awareness campaigns, presentations and data protection information initiatives. In addition, staff are required to sign undertakings annually that they have read, and will act in accordance with, data protection guidelines and policies.