Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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347. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 10 June 2025, regarding OPW properties lost to adverse possession, to provide further clarification (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51297/25]

Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No.430 of 10 June 2025. Following the completion of a review of Office of Public Works (OPW) records for the additional period 2015 to 2019 the OPW can confirm that no further successful adverse possession claims against the OPW were identified.

To clarify my earlier reply. To divulge the full address of these properties would make their owners identifiable and the address was therefore personal data in this case, which the OPW as data controller must process in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

I am advised that whilst a “property address” does not enjoy GDPR protections, the individual identifiable through the property’s address does. The GDPR states that personal data is also information that makes somebody ‘identifiable’ where you don’t know somebody’s identity, but could find out using context and/or additional information such as the address and knowledge of the fact that possession was achieved through adverse possession.

Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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348. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No.194 of 3 July 2025, if there is an update on this matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51351/25]

Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent)
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As previously noted in the response to PQ 36777 dated on the 3rd July 2025, OPW officials made contact with the property owner by phone on 17th June 2025 and had arranged to meet with him on site at Leacanabuaile, National Monument No. 414 on Thursday 19th June 2025. Unfortunately, Mr. O'Connor could not attend in the end but OPW officials completed a site assessment on that date.

The OPW remains open to identifying possible solutions to the issues highlighted and OPW officials have arranged to meet Mr. O'Connor on the 23rd October next.