Weary observers may recall a version of this stunt being pulled by the Department of Social Protection, which spent several years pretending it didn't know what the word biometric meant after its minister stood up in the Dáil and stated that her department wasn't processing biometric data.
Yesterday Jim O’Callaghan, looking like he attended immediately after belatedly being tagged in the ice-bucket challenge, stood up in the Seanad and said that Ireland was was going to use its own legal definitions of what biometric identification is.
Except that’s not how EU law works.
