‘our advice or legal obligation is x but we're going to do y’ is increasingly the MO of this government and dare I say it the hallmark of a regime leaning into authoritarianism
Alan Dunne
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.
