Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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466. To ask the Minister for Health the nature of the data breaches experienced by his Department since 2018. [29319/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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My Department 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). The majority of the breaches identified were determined to be minor in nature. These were handled in accordance with the Department's data breach management policy.

In relation to the specific question raised by the Deputy, I can confirm that my Department has registered 31 breaches since 2018.