Privacy Statement: Targeted Stakeholder Consultation as part of the Heritage Ireland 2030 Review
- Published on: 23 July 2025
- Last updated on: 1 August 2025
The Department is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy statement explains how the Department, as the Data Controller, will process the personal data provided to it in respect of the Targeted Stakeholder Consultation as part of the review of Heritage Ireland 2030, the national heritage strategy; how that information will be used, and what rights you may exercise in relation to your personal data.
Categories of personal data
The Department processes the following personal data in respect of the Targeted Stakeholder Consultation submissions as part of the Heritage Ireland 2030 Review:
- Name
- Contact email address
- Position in heritage stakeholder organisation
Purposes of the processing
A review of Heritage Ireland 2030 is being carried out as committed to under its implementation structures. The review centres on the comprehensive action plan set out in the strategy under its core themes of ‘Communities’, ‘Leadership’ and ‘Partnerships’. A Targeted Stakeholder Consultation is being undertaken as part of the Heritage Ireland 2030 review to seek feedback on implementation of the strategy and its action plan from stakeholder organisations and bodies with roles in the management and protection of heritage.
Stakeholder organisations and bodies, and contact details for those organisations have been identified from heritage sector analysis set out in Heritage Ireland 2030, as published online by the relevant organisations and bodies, and through relevant heritage-related departmental work-streams. Feedback will be sought through an online survey form hosted on the European Commission’s EU Survey platform. A link to the Survey will be emailed directly to identified stakeholder organisations and bodies.
Feedback will be recorded, collated, analysed, and evaluated to assess the impact of Heritage Ireland 2030 and to identify any appropriate changes to its action plan in line with relevant heritage policy developments since its publication in 2022.
Please note that submissions received may be made available on the Department’s website, unless otherwise requested.
The information provided may be used internally for audit or other compliance purposes where the Department has a lawful basis for such processing.
Profiling
The Department will not use any personal data collected from you in respect of gathering Targeted Stakeholder Consultation submissions as part of the Heritage Ireland 2030 Review for automated decision making, or for profiling purposes.
Lawfulness of processing
This processing of your personal data is lawful under Article 6 (1)(e) of the GDPR Regulation which provides that processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. In this case, the controller is the Department in its capacity as the body responsible for managing the Irish State’s responsibilities for implementation of Heritage Ireland 2030, under Section 168 of the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023, and in relation to heritage commitments as set out the ‘Programme for Government 2025: Securing Ireland’s Future’.
Security of your personal data
The Department implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your information from unauthorised access. However, despite these efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. In the event that your personal data is compromised as a result of a breach of security, the Department’s Breach Management policy and procedures will be implemented.
Recipients of the data
Personal data may be shared internally for audit or other compliance purposes.
Personal data may be shared with other Government Departments, local authorities, agencies under the aegis of the Department, or other public bodies, in certain circumstances where this is provided for by law. All submissions may be published in future with personal information redacted.
Cross-border Data Transfers
The Department will not transfer personal data collected in respect of the Targeted Stakeholder Consultation as part of the Heritage Ireland 2030 Review to any country or international organisation outside the EU/EEA.
How long will your data be kept?
The Department will only retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed. In this instance, the data retention period for your personal data is in line with the legislative and business unit requirements and the National Archives Act 1986 (as amended).
Your rights
The Department's Data Protection Policy, which sets out how we will use your personal data, as well as providing information regarding your rights as a data subject (including details regarding right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restriction of processing, right to object), is available on our website. The policy is also available in hard copy upon request. If you consider that your rights have been infringed, you have the right to complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission (www.dataprotection.ie), and you have the right to seek a judicial remedy.
Contacting Us
The Department is the Data Controller when processing your personal data for the purposes outlined above. The Department’s contact details are available at:
The Department has appointed a Data Protection Officer to support its compliance with data protection law. The contact details for the Department’s Data Protection Officer are:
- Data Protection Officer
- Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
- Newtown Road
- Wexford
