Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 22 January 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
1:00 pm
Mr. Philip Nugent:
There was a compliment in there, I am sure, about being all over this like a rash. I thank the Chairman for the question. There was a recent ruling by the Data Protection Commissioner, which sets a serious question mark over the use of some technology in some circumstances in terms of waste enforcement. It does not rule it out completely but what we have committed to in the new waste management (amendment) Bill, which follows on from the waste action plan in September, is to data-proof all waste enforcement activity so any question mark over the continued use of CCTV and body cameras is completely clarified. We expect to have that legislation in place this year.
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