Data commissioner welcomes ‘critical’ €4m budget rise
Concern office still underfunded ahead of EU law change while researchers get extra €7m
Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon: ‘The 2018 budget increase is hugely positive and critical to preparations for our enhanced and increasingly globally prominent regulatory role’
Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon says her office aims to spend its additional €4 million allocated in Budget 2018 to recruit up to 40 new employees.