Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Simon McGarr:

I would go further. I would say it falls short of both the Murray recommendations, the requirements of European law in the form of the Tele2 judgment and the European Convention on Human Rights. There is no doubt in my mind that the provisions as they stand individually and collectively would not meet those requirements. We do not want to be in the position where we are going to have to buy frequent flyer tickets to Luxembourg but if it is the case that we have to go back to the European Court of Justice in respect of these matters then-----

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