David Norris (Independent)

It is quite jazzy. Whereas the activities of the State, in terms of surveillance, are examined in the Bill, what are not directly examined or challenged legally in the Bill are the activities of people outside the direct State apparatus. I refer to the fairly thuggish security groups employed by various concerns, including Shell Oil. That worries me. I would like to know it will be covered, perhaps in other legislation.

Senator Bacik expressed her concern about the invasion of privacy and I spoke about this matter at some length on Second Stage. I regretted the fact that the Minister of State did not give more scope to this matter in his introductory speech. I instanced, for example, the fact that someone could be legitimately targeted for surveillance but there could be innocent third parties and the evidence gained by this might make its way into the newspapers. With regard to Shell to Sea-----