Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Just that. I see an awful lot of taxpayers’ money about to be wasted in court. We legislated for the Data Protection Commission, DPC, to do a job. It has done it. We do not like the sound of it, however. The language used in the correspondence sent to the DPC suggested it was a State agency and should get with the programme. It suggested the Department is not happy with this and it will agree a set of terms and conditions but the law does not apply to it. Collectively, the Oireachtas has made an entire mess of this card and now we have to clean it up. Money is in short supply but we are going to waste millions of euro litigating about who is right and how the law should be interpreted. That is tragic.

How much has come in with fines?