Peadar Tóibín
Question:176. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of data breaches suffered by his Department in each of the past five years and to date in 2021. [26096/21]
View answerTuesday, 18 May 2021
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I assume the Deputy is referring to personal data breaches under the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR").
As the Deputy will be aware, the GDPR was introduced on 18th May 2018.
Information on personal data breaches for my Department and the Offices under the aegis of my Department from this date to the current date in 2021 is set out in the following Table.
DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT (DETE) & OFFICES UNDER THE AEGIS OF DETE
|
YEAR |
No. of GDPR Personal Data Breaches – DETE |
No. of GDPR Personal Data Breaches – OFFICES under aegis of DETE |
|
2018 (data recorded from 18/05/2018) |
3 |
5 |
|
2019 |
6 |
24 |
|
2020 |
2 |
9 |
|
2021* (data as at 13/05/2021) |
1 |
4 |
The Offices under the aegis of the DETE are: (1) The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC); the Companies Registration Office (CRO); the Registry of Friendly Societies (RFS), the Register of Beneficial Ownership (RBO), the Intellectual Property Office of Ireland (IPOI); the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) and the Labour Court (LC).