General Data Protection Regulation

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 1 April 2021

Thursday, 1 April 2021

Ceisteanna (39)

Catherine Murphy

Ceist:

39. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of complaints his Department has received from members of the public under the heading of general data protection regulation, GDPR, and data information requests from 2018 to date in 2021; the number of data information requests that have been refused and accepted, respectively; the number of GDPR requests refused; and the basis on which they were declined, in tabular form. [17989/21]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.

GDPR Subject Access Requests

Year	Requests Received	Requests Withdrawn	Invalid Requests	Valid Requests	Refused Requests	GDPR Complaints Received
2018	1	-	-	1	-	0
2019	6	1	1*	4	2**	1
2020	9	5	1*	3	1**	1
2021 to date	2	1	-	1	0	0

* Invalid on the basis that no valid ID was supplied to my Department.

** Refused on the basis that no records existed in my Department.