James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Ms Cunningham mentioned the Bill relating to body-worn cameras that is being debated in the Seanad. Our colleague, Senator Ward, who was here has gone to debate it. There was a lot of debate in the public domain in the past year or two. For the record, the committee endorsed the idea of body-worn cameras from the start. We had no issue whatsoever. There was a separate concern around facial recognition technology, but we had no issue at any stage with body-worn cameras. In fact, we recommended that such cameras be rolled out. I share the concern that it did not happen sooner. It is probably because a move was afoot to add additional elements that were not considered at this committee. However, I agree with the Ms Cunningham that the sooner body-worn cameras get out there, the better.

I will come back to Mr. Gallagher. We have to go around committee members first, but I will make sure to get to him in the next round.