Seanad debates
Monday, 3 July 2006
Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Committee Stage.
Derek McDowell (Labour)
This section, to some extent, anticipates the next amendment in Senator Norris's name which deals with forensic samples. I hope the Senator will allow me to get my retaliation in first.
I do not agree with the general principle of the destruction of anything. I hold the view — it certainly applies to politicians — that one's photograph is in the public domain and it is no great intrusion on one's privacy or rights if one's photograph is also in the bottom drawer of a desk in a Garda station for use as part of a mug shot manual or for intelligence purposes. I do not believe that any law-abiding or non-law-abiding citizen's rights are affected by he or she being photographed or not photographed in a Garda station. We are all photographed every time we use an ATM machine and very few of us, with perhaps the exception of Senator Norris, go around wearing a hat and mask——
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