Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

In the letter that the Garda Commissioner sent to the Minister he referred to himself as being the "data controller" vis-à-vis the recordings. However, a massive report from the Data Protection Commission states that representatives of that office went to Garda Headquarters in 2011 and that they had elaborate discussions on all data-related issues but not once was the issue of recordings raised or mentioned in the report. Who is to blame there? Was it concealed from the Data Protection Commission? What does the Minister know of that and what will he try to find out in that regard?

I ask the Minister to also address the giving of criminal intelligence numbers to children, including children of members of the Traveller community, as he knows happens with the PULSE system.

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