Eileen Flynn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 11 relates to notifying people that the cameras are on, whether in a public or private place. I stress that I am not anti-gardaí - far from it - but I have seen numerous times in certain areas in Dublin situations in which people's doors were kicked down, etc. A lot of gardaí already wear bodycams. We need to be realistic in this regard. On a morning last April, I saw a situation where a pregnant woman not allowed to use the toilet in her trailer. She was told she could not use it and her husband was trying to protect his wife, who was more than 20 weeks' pregnant. The first thing a pregnant woman wants to do in the morning is go to the toilet, end of story; let us be straight about it. This woman was living in a trailer. The gardaí told her the bodycam was on but some people are not educated about them. Gardaí should at least notify people in private or public spaces as to whether their bodycams are on. That is provided for in our amendment No. 11.