Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I find myself in the frightening position of agreeing with the Minister. The amendment raises very important issues that go beyond the data protection measures, the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and this legislation. The Minister's point about what is a serious offence involves a balancing of rights which are adjudicated by the courts, and as Deputy Wallace just said to me, if at some stage we did have a crusading independent media and journalist corps, it would be nice to have their interests protected, but we are a long way from that given the conduct of many journalists in front of the Charleton tribunal. That is another story.