Covid-19 Pandemic

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Questions (1502)

Alan Farrell

Question:

1502. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Health the personal data currently being used or shared between Departments as part of the State’s Covid-19 response. [19425/21]

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The following table lists the sources of data used in the production of reports supporting Government’s response to COVID-19. This covers the work done by the 1GC group and does not include any of the data utilised by NPHET/IEMAG.

Source	Method	Detail
CSO	Publicly available on CSO website	Publicly available aggregated data, including related to: - Population demographics by region and age group - Employment details by county and job type - Pandemic unemployment details by country and job type - Staying Local Indicator by county - Covid-19 deaths by county and age group.
GeoHive- Incidence Data (LEA)	Publiclyavailable on website	Publiclyavailable information regarding 14 day disease incidence per Local Electoral Area (LEA) per 100k population

HSE	Direct feed of information from HSE IIS System	Consolidated HPSC Covid-19 outbreak information from HPSC. Only includes aggregated data for outbreaks with five or more cases. Any outbreaks with four or fewer cases are not shared. Summary information shared includes number of outbreaks, number of cases, outbreak type by county.
HSE	Direct feed of information from HSE IIS System	Aggregate information of Covid-19 hospitalisations. Shared on a per hospital basis and includes total number of admissions, hospital cases, discharges and total number in critical care.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland	Direct from TII ShareFile site	Summary of Ireland’s traffic volumes by a number of aggregate groupings, including road, road type, class type (vehicle type), direction, county and counter location. Dataset is consistent with what is shared in the TII website, but provided several days early in a more easily digestible format.
Dublin City Council	Email from Dublin City Council	Pedestrian footfall counter on Dublin city centre streets. Dataset is an consistent with what is published by DCC, but provided several days early in a more easily digestible format.
Revenue	Publicly available on Revenue website	Publicly available information regarding the Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme per county
Department of Justice	Email from DoJ	Consolidated daily airport arrivals survey and departures survey showing total numbers of travellers by country of origin, destination, purpose of trip and residency information. Weekly summary report also provided.
Department of Justice	Publicly available on DoJ website	Summary of Garda fines information by county and reason. Published on an ongoing basis on the DoJ website.
Department of Health	Publicly available on DoH website	Amárach survey report published on DoH website on a periodic basis.

-	Method	Detail
OurWorldInData	Publicly available on OurWorldInData website	Publicly available information on incidence rate per 100k population, vaccine rollout figures and Covid-19 related deaths.
University of Maryland	Publicly available on UMD website	Publicly available Facebook survey information on event plans and lists, compliance symptom survey. Data is aggregated per county.