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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 November 2025

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Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Questions (714)

Paul Lawless

Question:

714. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether the secondary use or linkage of farmers' genomic, performance and flockbook/pedigree data (details supplied) has been assessed for compliance with EU agricultural data-governance guidance, including the EU Code of Conduct on Agricultural Data Sharing and DG AGRI principles on purpose limitation and originator control; and whether a data protection impact assessment was undertaken to support this assessment. [65509/25]

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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The named organisation's data governance policy is provided at the following link: www.sheep.ie/legal-and-privacy/

The use of genomic and other data for secondary purposes are subject to consents or service level agreements between individual breeders/breed societies and the named organisation. My Department did not conduct a data protection impact assessment concerning this matter as this agreement is between breeders/societies and the named organisation and it is their responsibility to comply with data protection legislation.

Question No. 715 answered with Question No. 711.

Question No. 716 answered with Question No. 711.

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