Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin Bay North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is not agreed. At the risk of being accused of point scoring, I raise the issue of facial recognition technology and the determination of the Minister for Justice to include this as an amendment to the bodycam Bill. We are not necessarily opposing facial recognition technology, but we are mindful that EU legislation is pending and that this recognition technology has been very problematic in places such as London and San Francisco. We require stand-alone legislation to deal with this comprehensively as well as pre-legislative scrutiny. We would like a debate on it this week. We do not feel the existing process the Minister is utilising for facial recognition technology will get the results we need.

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