Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy raised a very important issue. I presume she supports our data protection legislation and recognises that individuals going about their private lives are entitled to some degree of privacy. Matters that are not of significant public import relating to their privacy should not be in the media and what they have done in life should not be grossly misrepresented. None of the Deputies can contain their enthusiasm for throwing names around the place. One of the difficulties with this issue is that a member of the Garda force was accessing the PULSE system, which indicated where charges were issued and cancelled but did not give the reasons. That member of the Garda force did not know the reasons as a result. No police force in the world can tolerate a position where a member believes he or she can access any computer system to reveal to a member of the public or a newspaper information that is confidential and protected under the data protection legislation.

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