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- Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)
Catherine Connolly: ...the serious concerns of the committee on the matter. The committee recommended that the legislation should include a sunset clause and that there be better consultation with stakeholders. It also recommended that a certain category of citizens, such as journalists, should be given separate rights under the Bill. That is serious because that Murray report arose from GSOC taking...
- Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Jul 2022)
Catherine Murphy: ...that threat is serious enough to justify secret surveillance of individuals or groups. That situation is rife to abuse. The Murray review was originally commissioned on the back of a discovery that Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, had obtained the phone records of two journalists without their knowledge or consent as part of a criminal inquiry into a third party. It...