Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

General Scheme of the Criminal Justice (Protection, Preservation of and Access to Data on Information Systems) Bill 2024: Discussion

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

Therefore, that is where this is coming from. It may or may not be related to this but it is certainly relevant. Last year, we processed a Bill introduced by the Minister to address ruling effectively. This committee was a little bit uncomfortable with the pace of that Bill, which progressed rapidly through this committee and the Houses. We felt - and indeed this point was made in our report and in the committee and in the Chamber by me and other members of the committee - that while we accepted there was a desire by the Minister at the time to put that through in a speedy fashion, we strongly recommended that it would be revisited at the earliest opportunity because we felt it was imperfect, to put it diplomatically. Does this Bill go in any way towards addressing that? Would there be an opportunity to include some measures in this that would address some of those concerns?

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