Privacy debate - Hypocrisy of tabloid’s owners

Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte has said he finds it hard “to get worked up” about the publication of the semi-nude photographs of Kate Middleton.

He clearly does not agree with the attitude of Justice Minister Alan Shatter on the need to revisit the shelved privacy legislation.

Mr Shatter acknowledged that the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights already protect the right to privacy. Thus there is cause for concern in the knee-jerk manner in which he raised the possibility of revisiting the flawed Privacy Bill, which was seriously discredited some years ago.