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

5:35 pm

Mr. Simon O'Brien:

There is key learning to be taken from this entire episode. Clearly, we are now more secure than we were previously. If the Deputy is asking if we would always have total security, we do not. That is why we have risk assessment. We look at the level of the risk that comes in and we mitigate that risk, but certainly there is learning to come out of this, and we will continue to look at our security. We are now far more conscious of the level of capability in terms of what we should and should not be saying on mobile phones. Frankly, our attitude has always been, apart from when we were dealing with this particular covert operation, that we as commissioners should not be talking about anything that we would be particularly nervous about. At times when we might be talking about confidential issues, we may use some other means of communication rather than mobile telephony.

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