Banking Sector

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 8 September 2022

Thursday, 8 September 2022

Questions (348)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

348. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Finance the number of instances in which a bank (details supplied) has investigated bank officials across the sector in respect of accessing customer data and information for purposes that were not official and-or valid in the past five years to date in 2022, in tabular form; the number of prosecutions and-or litigations that have arisen from those investigations; if any bank has been fined for breaches of customer privacy; and, if so, the amount that has been realised from those fines. [42574/22]

Written answers

Minister for Finance

The Deputy will be aware that the legislative basis providing for the obligation to report such breaches by data controllers is to the Data Protection Commission, which is a body under the aegis of my colleague, the Minister for Justice Ms Helen McEntee TD.

In this case, the Central Bank of Ireland is not in a position to respond on this matter as the Data Protection Commission is the appropriate supervisory authority for regulated entities in respect of data protection matters.