Written answers

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Data Protection

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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349. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of data breaches suffered by her Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26108/21]

Photo of Catherine MartinCatherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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The number of data breaches recorded by my Department for the period specified is set out in the table below.

I am advised that the majority of breaches were deemed to be of zero or low risk, and were therefore not required to be reported to the Data Protection Commission. These were managed internally with steps taken to ensure that similar breaches would not reoccur.

Those breaches that met the threshold to be referred to the Data Protection Commission were quickly resolved to the satisfaction of that office.

Year Number of Breaches Number of Breaches reported to the Data Protection Commission
2021 2 0
2020 9 1
2019 6 2
2018 1 1
2017 0 0
2016 0 0

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