Written answers

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Data Protection

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26102/21]

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018.  My Department appointed a Data Protection Officer (as is required under Article 37 of the GDPR) and set up a dedicated Data Protection Unit that year

The table below sets out the number of data breaches identified by my Department since the introduction of the GDPR. All breaches were dealt with in line with the Department’s Data Breach Management Policy and as required under Articles 33-34 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  All breaches have been closed/resolved.

Years Number of Data Breaches
2018 0
2019 12
2020 7
2021 2

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