Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

5:15 pm

Mr. Simon O'Brien:

In terms of where we are now, it happened once. As to the chance of it happening benignly, as per what Mr. FitzGerald and the security experts have said, it is on a higher level of suspicion. I would still say there is a very small chance that this could be some innocent telephone caller coming in, and for reasons of thoughtfulness as to whether that could meet the threshold of an offence, on the evidence I would almost err on the side of not going down that thought process. If that sounds convoluted, there is a point at which one must ask when that threshold would have been met. Had that test been repeated, and had we found it again, that might have indicated an offence in my mind. It has not.

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