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

Mr. Jimmy Martin:

There is a certain overlap. This Bill deals with subscriber ID traffic data and content. The Act the Chair referred to only dealt with subscriber ID and traffic content. We will be providing a new method of accessing that data. In ours, we deliberately exclude data where the Minister has made an order to retain it for security reasons. While the 2022 Act dealt with that retention for security reasons and dealt with criminal, we are just dealing with criminal and not security. We provided specifically that we cannot access data that is being held on the basis of an order for security only.

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