Ms Maeve-Anne Kenny:

I wish to confirm, first and foremost, that the definition of a recording device is intentionally broad in the general scheme of the Bill. As has been mentioned previously, this has been done to cover the possibility of future types of recording devices that we have not necessarily thought of now. It also covers the processing of images that will be gathered by those devices. The safeguards come in by way of the codes of practice which will require data protection impact assessments and human rights impact assessments, as well as consultation prior to the introduction of a code relating to a specific device. It will be for those data protection impact assessments, consultations with the Data Protection Commissioner and so on to dictate what may transpire in the future. The intention is to make the definition in the legislation broad enough to capture potential future developments.