Seanad debates

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Bill 2009: Committee and Remaining Stages

 

Photo of Eugene ReganEugene Regan (Fine Gael)

In those 24 hours one would have access to the building and I presume there would be analysis of why one is going into that building. One would have background information prior to entering any building to install equipment for covert surveillance. However, having entered the building and having full knowledge of what it looks like, in the 24-hour period during which one has installed the equipment one would be in a position to ascertain whether it was a dwelling in the legal sense of the term. I do not understand the difficulties to which the Minister of State referred as the Garda would have actual knowledge of the building having had access to it.

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