Irish security policing is ‘closed to public scrutiny’, says major ICCL report

Security policing in Ireland is “completely closed to public scrutiny”, with serious concerns as to the extent to which it complies with human rights law, a major report has found.

The research said Irish laws governing surveillance, interceptions, and data-retention are “opaque, piecemeal, and out-of-date” and that oversight structures are “muddled and complex”.