Written answers

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan 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]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen 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.

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan 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]

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen 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.

Source Method Detail
CSO Publicly available on CSO website Publicly available aggregated data, including related to:

- Population demographics by region and age group

- Employment details by county and job type

- Pandemic unemployment details by country and job type

- Staying Local Indicator by county

- Covid-19 deaths by county and age group.
GeoHive- Incidence Data (LEA) Publiclyavailable on website Publiclyavailable information regarding 14 day disease incidence per Local Electoral Area (LEA) per 100k population
HSE Direct feed of information from HSE IIS System Consolidated HPSC Covid-19 outbreak information from HPSC. Only includes aggregated data for outbreaks with five or more cases. Any outbreaks with four or fewer cases are not shared. Summary information shared includes number of outbreaks, number of cases, outbreak type by county.
HSE Direct feed of information from HSE IIS System Aggregate information of Covid-19 hospitalisations. Shared on a per hospital basis and includes total number of admissions, hospital cases, discharges and total number in critical care.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland Direct from TII ShareFile site Summary of Ireland’s traffic volumes by a number of aggregate groupings, including road, road type, class type (vehicle type), direction, county and counter location. Dataset is consistent with what is shared in the TII website, but provided several days early in a more easily digestible format.
Dublin City Council Email from Dublin City Council Pedestrian footfall counter on Dublin city centre streets. Dataset is an consistent with what is published by DCC, but provided several days early in a more easily digestible format.
Revenue Publicly available on Revenue website Publicly available information regarding the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme per county
Department of Justice Email from DoJ Consolidated daily airport arrivals survey and departures survey showing total numbers of travellers by country of origin, destination, purpose of trip and residency information. Weekly summary report also provided.
Department of Justice Publicly available on DoJ website Summary of Garda fines information by county and reason. Published on an ongoing basis on the DoJ website.
Department of Health Publicly available on DoH website Amárach survey report published on DoH website on a periodic basis.
- Method Detail
OurWorldInData Publicly available on OurWorldInData website Publicly available information on incidence rate per 100k population, vaccine rollout figures and Covid-19 related deaths.
University of Maryland Publicly available on UMD website Publicly available Facebook survey information on event plans and lists, compliance symptom survey. Data is aggregated per county.

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