Department of Justice places no timeline on data retention review
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The Department of Justice does not know when a review into data retention legislation will be completed, The Irish Times reports.
Former chief justice John Murray was appointed in January to review legislation under which the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission retrieved journalists’ phone records.
The “review of law and practice” was announced following controversial reports that Gsoc had accessed two journalists’ mobile phone records during an inquiry into internal media leaks.
Mr Justice Murray was expected to report back by April 2016.
However, the Department has said it can no longer say when the report will be finished due to the complexity of the review.
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