COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 09, 2020

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor Yvonne Collins

To ask the Chief Executive whether footage from live South Dublin County Council traffic cameras could be recorded and made available to An Garda Siochana in the event of a crime or suspected criminality?

REPLY:

CCTV data is classified as personal data, and processing of the SDCC CCTV footage for traffic management and traffic incident detection is primarily done in real time.

GDPR legislation and regulation requires that personal data can only be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes.  Similarly, personal data can only be retained in a form for no longer than is necessary to process this data.

As the SDCC traffic cameras are specifically for traffic management and traffic incident detection on the traffic network within the administrative area of the South Dublin County Council, it is therefore not possible to make such data available for any other purpose.