The point I was making was that the Irish Republic is quite open about the extent of surveillance, That is not true of the UK.
I do not think it needs to be brought to anyione's attention that Treland is not part of the UK. The Irish Free State came into being in 1922, after an Independance war.(You would think Varakar would have a little more sympathy for the UK trying to break free of the EU tentacles)