Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) (Amendment) Bill 2026
Bill entitled an Act to amend the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Act 2023 to require that public bodies provide members of Garda personnel access to publicly operated CCTV systems, without a full new authorisation being required, for the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences; to allow members of Garda personnel to install and operate CCTV in designated high-crime areas; to provide for the preparation of draft codes of practice in relation to Garda access to publicly operated CCTV systems, and for the Minister to declare them by order to be codes of practice.
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- Houses of the Oireachtas
- Chamber
- Dáil Éireann
- Reference
- Bill 43 of 2026
- Stage
- Second Stage
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 2026-04-02
- Scheduled
- 2026-04-02
- Sponsor
- James Geoghegan, Naoise Ó Muirí, Emer Currie, Grace Boland, Maeve O'Connell
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