Written answers

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Data Protection

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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712. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26092/21]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The number of data breaches recorded by my Department, since 2016, are outlined in the table below.  The current operational procedure is that low risk breaches are not reported to the Data Protection Commission (DPC).

Year No.
2016 5
2017 10
2018 35
2019 50
2020 54
2021 (to date) 35

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