Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)

I see. A slight shiver goes down my spine when I see it happening. We are looking at a "big brother" area, to some degree. Everything may or may not be recorded. Deputy Ó Snodaigh's amendment states that "all Garda stations shall be internally and externally monitored and recorded by CCTV". That is going an awful long way. The first thing that occurs to me is that it could be quite expensive to install CCTV facilities in this country's Garda stations. I think there are approximately 715 such stations.

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