696. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has confidence in the Data Protection Commission. [54881/25]
Topics / Data Protection
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsData Protection
132 questions from 35 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 20 October 2026.
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| June 2026 | 8 |
| July 2026 | 0 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 2 |
| October 2026 | 2 |
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73. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is satisfied with the safeguards contained in the EU's chat control proposal in respect of privacy and data protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53733/25]
286. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the measures his Department is taking to curb the extent to which people are tracked by apps on their smart phones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52180/25]
97. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to introduce emergency legislation to urgently address data collection issues (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51011/25]
99. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the discussions his Department has had with the Data Protection Commission regarding protecting citizens from the misuse of their location data being sold online; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50540/25]
100. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the action his Department will take regarding the investigation carried out by RTÉ (details supplied) which show that the data of people in Ireland can be used to track the movements of individuals, presenting a threat to their personal safety and right to privacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50541/25]
101. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department or bodies under his aegis plan to issue guidance on preventing the tracking of location data to women's refuges to ensure the safety of their service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50542/25]
516. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Finance considering obligations under Article 8 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, the enforcement actions taken to ensure compliance with age and guardianship verification requirements by financial institutions; if steps have been taken to strengthen cross-sector coordination to protect children from online finan…
1602. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his attention has been drawn to updated user requirements of a social media platform (details supplied), which requires users to upload age verification to use the platform; if this requirement is in line with data protection laws; if his Department has engaged with this company regarding this; and if he will make a statement on the…
1626. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on client-side scanning which has been debated within the EU parliament and at various EU committees; his further views on the knock-on implications for data protection and privacy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45875/25]
537. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Transport to clarify whether footage captured by road users, including motorists and cyclists, using dash cameras or any similar video recording equipment is subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43126/25]
162. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if, further to the most recent fine imposed on his Department by the data protection commissioner for deficiencies in compliance with data protection rules, he will provide details of each Government Department or agency that this data was shared with; if he will confirm that the data in question has been deleted by his Department and/or other Depar…
286. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if he can justify Revenue's unlawful destruction of the 13.3 million call recordings without a disposal authorisation given its own records retention schedule stipulates: "no class of Revenue records can be destroyed without first obtaining a disposal authorisation from the Director of the National Archive…
287. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if he will confirm that the original message on Revenue's LPT Helpline on 22 March 2024, on 30 May 2024 and on 17 August 2024 stated the call "will be recorded" and "may be used for training and verification purposes" by callers without limit in case of dispute, will he confirm the original message had cha…
288. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if he will confirm that the original message on Revenue's LPT Helpline on 22 March 2024, on 30 May 2024 and on 17 August 2024 gave callers a legitimate expectation their recordings would be available to them for "verification purposes" without limit in case of dispute; if he will confirm the destruction co…
289. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions (details supplied), if Revenue notified the Data Protection Commission of the 13.3 million breaches within 72 hours of becoming aware of them, in accordance with Article 33(1) GDPR; the date on which Revenue did notify the DPC thereof; if Revenue is under investigation by the DPC in relation thereto; and if he will make a sta…
338. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of data breaches reported by the National Shared Service Office to the Data Protection Commissioner in each of the years 2021 to 2024, and to date in 2025, respectively; if the National Shared Service Office has been audited by the Data Protection Commissioner; and if he will make a s…
972. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of requests or complaints received by the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) under Articles 17 and 19 of the GDPR (the "right to erasure / right to be forgotten") in each year from 2018 to date. [28995/25]
116. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 14 May 2025, the reason the number of unauthorised or unlawful destructions of personal data by the Revenue Commissioners for each year from 2013 to 2024, in breach of the National Archives Act 1986 and data protection legislation, is not available; if he will confirm whether the number of such destructions exceeded …
117. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 14 May 2025, if he will provide the number of phone call recordings destroyed by the Revenue Commissioners for each year since 2018 without the certified authorisation required under section 7 of the National Archives Act 1986; if he will confirm whether the number of such destructions exceeded 10 million; and if he …
118. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 14 May 2025, if he will confirm whether the pre-recorded message on the Revenue Commissioners’ local property tax helpline in 2024 stated that calls would be recorded and may be used for verification purposes by callers; if he will explain the reason such recordings were deleted six months later, despite the expectat…
55. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance the reason no annual report of the Revenue Commissioners has ever reported a single personal data breach of either the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, or of the GDPR; the number of such breaches that occurred in each year from 2010 to 2024, the number of each such number were the result of the unauthorised or unlawful destruction of the personal data of dat…
56. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Finance the number of phone call recordings unlawfully destroyed by the Revenue Commissioners in the absence of a disposal certificate made by the Director or a Designated Officer of the National Archives for each year since 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24791/25]
827. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details of information of individuals in receipt of social welfare that are passed on to Turas Nua or Seetec from the Department of Social Protection; under what GDPR legislation is this transaction happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24310/25]
1924. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a data protection issue at an agency under her Departmental remit has been brought to her attention (details supplied); the steps that have been taken by this agency and her Department to ensure that the GDPR is correctly enforced and that no conflict of interest issues arise; and if she will make a statement on t…