Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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1501. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to ensure that data privacy of citizens is being protected in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic response, following recent reports in the media regarding data sharing proposals. [19424/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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There is a strict oversight process in place within the HSE for both; a) the data being used in the course of producing reports and b) the ICT systems being deployed to process the data used and produce the reports.

The ICT system used to produce consolidated reports to inform Government in its management of the COVID-19 response is a separate instance of the HSE’s business analytics system, which allows for the isolation of this work from the rest of the HSE’s data systems and databases.

The information processing and report production process limits its use of data to aggregated and anonymised/pseudonymised data and not citizen level data.

Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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1502. To ask the Minister for Health the personal data currently being used or shared between Departments as part of the State’s Covid-19 response. [19425/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The following table lists the sources of data used in the production of reports supporting Government’s response to COVID-19. This covers the work done by the 1GC group and does not include any of the data utilised by NPHET/IEMAG.