Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Time is short. In order to leak a secret document one does not need surveillance equipment if one has access to the document. This is where two things can potentially be confused. One only needs access to the document to get it out. There may be a question about how one got it out, by photocopying it or whatever else, but one does not need Government level surveillance technology. We have established that a secret document was got out, probably by a small number of people who had access to it. What I am asking about is the other side of the story, the security anomalies and the possibility that surveillance equipment was being deployed against GSOC. As that issue has been investigated, we do not have any definitive answer, but the two-piece threat is not so alarming, so to speak, but threats two and three are quite alarming. On threat two, after the test had been done, the possibility of somebody ringing back immediately at 1 a.m. was described as remote to zero by the security experts. I am alarmed by this. There could be a benign explanation, but the balance of probabilities suggests there is not and that is what the security experts believed. Is that correct? Is that not something about which we should be deeply concerned?