Mr. Ian Drennan:

I am going to make some preliminary comments on this matter and I will ask my colleague, Ms Gunn, to supplement those. As we touched on in the submission, we all, as citizens, have certain privacy rights. These are fully respected but, on occasion, particularly in the context of criminal investigations, tensions arise between citizens' privacy rights and the duty of the State or us, in that particular iteration of the State, to investigate potential criminal activity. As a result, there are can be tension between the two. The judgments handed down by the Supreme Court to which the Deputy referred have a direct bearing on our work on a daily basis. We put it in the submission because this is a particularly complex issue that creates significant difficulties for us on a day-to-day basis as investigators. If the Deputy does not mind, I will ask Ms Gunn to supplement my remarks so that the Deputy will get a better understanding of the impact.