Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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194. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of data breaches experienced by his Department in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [42376/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Data breaches are taken very seriously within my Department and staff are provided with training and procedures on what steps to take in the event of a possible data breach, including notifying, as soon as possible, the Department's Data Protection Officer.

I have outlined the number of data breaches within the timeframe requested by the Deputy in the table below. Please note that our records comprise 2017 to the present date.

The Deputy may also wish to be aware that the majority of the breaches identified were determined to be unlikely to result in a risk to data subjects and were handled in accordance with the Department's Personal Data Breach Response Policy.