Lunney trial hears call for Government to legislate on access to mobile phone data Gardaí investigating Kevin Lunney’s abduction used search warrants to access data about 3 hours ago Eoin Reynolds Counsel said the State has decided to ‘shrug their shoulders’ following various court rulings. File photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
A barrister representing one of the men accused of abducting and assaulting Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney has criticised the Government’s failure to legislate on how gardaí can access mobile phone data. Michael O’Higgins SC told the Special Criminal Court that the State has decided to “shrug their shoulders” following various court rulings and reports since 2012 which revealed problems with the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011. He said that a “day of reckoning” has now come over the State’s failure to act.