Written answers
Thursday, 1 April 2021
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
General Data Protection Regulation
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of complaints her Department has received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since 2018 to date in 2021; the number of data information requests that have been refused and accepted, respectively; the number of GDPR requests refused; and the basis on which they were declined in tabular form. [17998/21]
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below:
| Total | Reason for refusal | |
|---|---|---|
| Complaints | 52 | N/A |
| Subject Access Requests* | 1518 | |
| Accepted | 1510 | |
| Refused | 8 | 6 were refused under Article 15(4) GDPR – Third party data1 was refused under Article 12(5)(b) GDPR – unfounded or excessive1 was refused under Section 60(3)(a)(ii) and 60(3)(a)(iv) of the Data Protection Act 2018 – ongoing investigation |
| Right to Erasure | 54 | |
| Granted | 7 | |
| Part-granted | 4 | These requests were part-granted as some of the data could not be erased under Article 17(3) GDPR |
| Refused | 27 | These requests were refused under Article 17(3) GDPR. |
| Withdrawn | 5 | |
| Pending | 5 | |
| Referred | 3 | |
| Not verified | 2 | |
| No records exist | 1 |
* Subject Access Requests from members of the public who are former members of the Department's staff are not included in these figures.
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