Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 December 2020
220. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education if her Department has been the subject of an investigation by the Data Protection Commission from 2016 to date; the number of specific investigations underway or completed; the dates on which her Department was first notified of the investigation; the details of the investigation; the nature of the complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40807/20]
View answerMy Department has not been the subject of a statutory investigation by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) initiated since 2016. There was one statutory investigation concluded in 2019, but this was initiated by the Data Protection Commissioner in 2015 in relation to the introduction of the Pupil Online Database (POD). The recommendations arising have been implemented.
I am aware that there is an investigation by the DPC relating to SUSI, which was a joint data controller with my Department. SUSI was under the aegis of my Department at the time of the initiation of the investigation but has now transferred to the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
