Written answers

Tuesday, 18 May 2021

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Data Protection

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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426. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26099/21]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department documents any personal data breaches that have occurred in the Department in accordance with its obligations under Article 33(5) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).The table below provides the number of data breaches by year since the introduction of the GDPR on 25 May 2018 to date.  

Year Total Breaches
2018 54
2019 124
2020 163
2021 22

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