Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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331. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26104/21]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has a data breach management policy in place to ensure that any data breaches are dealt with as required under Articles 33-34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  In line with this policy, the Department identified and recorded twenty eight data breaches to date from 2016.  The breakdown by year is shown below in tabular form.  Only a small portion of these were required to be reported to the Data Protection Commissioner, under the terms of the GDPR.