Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

That is pretty much word for word the answer the Minister gave my colleague, Deputy Joe Higgins, a few weeks ago and while it may be true, what is interesting is what has not been included in it. I seek clarification from the Minister. She said one of the approaches adopted involves making use of open source information. What other approaches are used by the Garda to monitor protesters? She also said that she was further informed that no public representative or member of the public is subject to such surveillance by Operation Mizen, which refers to technical or interception surveillance. Is any member of the public or any public representative subject to another form of surveillance? The only thing ruled out in the Minister's response is technical surveillance. Are there other forms of surveillance? For example, is there monitoring of people's whereabouts, etc., which people come under?

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