Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2022-07-13
============================================================

Lynn Ruane (IND), University of Dublin

I might be missing something elsewhere in the legislation, but section 5 states:
A member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of superintendent may require a service provider to disclose to that member user data in the possession or control of the service provider—
(a) where the member believes that the data relate to a person whom the member suspects, on reasonable grounds of—
(i) having committed an offence
It just refers to an offence; not a serious offence.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2022-07-13/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-09-21T01:01:04+00:00
Sitting date: 2022-07-13