Data Protection
Dail Éireann — 2021-07-08
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Matt Shanahan (IND), Waterford

The country is still grappling with the effects of a cyberattack and, therefore, I do not know how it can be said that encryption on a stick is adequate. It is also regrettable that the Department did not liaise with the victims in the Kenneally case, who had to read about this loss of data in the national press without having been consulted. That is an oversight that should not happen again. What engagement is going on? I understand that the work of the commission of investigation is possibly outside of the Minister of State's purview but the plaintiffs in this case have experienced a large degree of frustration over the lack of information they have been able to get from the Department. This echoes what they have received from An Garda Síochána and from others who were involved in this overall investigation.

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Sitting date: 2021-07-08