Alan Shatter left ‘very open’ after data case defeat

The appeal by former minister for justice Alan Shatter against a decision of the Data Protection Commissioner that he breached the Data Protection Act has been dismissed in the Circuit Civil Court.

And immediately after the judgment was handed down yesterday morning, independent TD Mick Wallace — about whom the minister disclosed information on RTÉ’s Prime Time — said it left the former minister “very open.”

Mr Wallace said it was significant that the court had taken on board the fact that what the minister did on the night on Prime Time was not in the public interest.