Written answers
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Agriculture Industry
Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)
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714. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the secondary use or linkage of farmers' genomic, performance and flockbook/pedigree data (details supplied) has been assessed for compliance with EU agricultural data-governance guidance, including the EU Code of Conduct on Agricultural Data Sharing and DG AGRI principles on purpose limitation and originator control; and whether a data protection impact assessment was undertaken to support this assessment. [65509/25]
Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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The named organisation's data governance policy is provided at the following link: www.sheep.ie/legal-and-privacy/
The use of genomic and other data for secondary purposes are subject to consents or service level agreements between individual breeders/breed societies and the named organisation. My Department did not conduct a data protection impact assessment concerning this matter as this agreement is between breeders/societies and the named organisation and it is their responsibility to comply with data protection legislation.
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