Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Séamus Dooley:
The unlawful activity which threatens the security of the State is not the leaking or receipt of inconvenient information by a whistleblower which are the issues which concern us. That goes back to the first point raised with the ICCL. It is very important that the law be framed as tightly as possible so that there is not some imaginative use of the law in order to go on forays beyond gaining information which is needed for the prosecution of a crime.
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